From Gary Martin – Grandson of Thomas Kempt
The following letter was one my Grandfather Thomas Kempt received. He was ex Royal Navy and came to Australia in 1919 with his wife and my mother who was only one year old. Initially they lived in a tent at Ora Banda but later shifted to Kalgoorlie and lived at 28A President Street. Tom was involved in the recovery of the remains of Pitman and Walsh from the mineshaft after their murder.My grandfather died in about 1931 so I never knew him.
Murdered! Foully and diabolically murdered! That was the tragic fate which befell Detective-Inspector John Walsh and Detective-Sergeant Alexander Pitman while in the execution of their duty at Kalgoorlie a little over a fortnight ago. The full story – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/58241608#
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