Kurrawang-Coolgardie United Football Club 1923

Kurrawang-Coolgardie United Football Club Season-1923 Back Row:- J Tovey, J Crudace, W Reid, J Moran, A Dunlop, G Rinaldi Third Row:- G Hilliert, J Clementson, D Maguire (Sec), E Cullen, M Maguire Second Row:-S Thompson, W Mulligan, J Rinaldi (President), D Brown (Capt), H Larcombe (Vice-Capt), E Scahill,  J Ryan. Front Row:- G Hoyer, T […]

Cricket isn’t life or death. It’s much more important!

BAYLEY’S CRICKET CLUB Premiers 1938-1939 Coolgardie Cricket Association Back Row:- L to R = L WILSON, J MacFARLANE, W CATTENACK, M NIVEN (Capt), D Matthews, L NORRISH, W SIMPSON, Front Row:– J MORALEE, F HOLT, J McKENZIE, R DOWNEY, John Ronald PAUL (with hat)

Called Home to Jesus – grave tales

On the 6th November 1911 little Dorothea Ruby Olive WRAIGH, age 9yrs, passed away in the Infectious Disease Hospital in Kalgoorlie. Exactly a week later her little brother Alwyn George WRAIGHT, aged 7mth, also died. They are buried together in the Boulder Cemetery. Dorothea was born in Coolgardie on the 20th Nov 1902 to George […]

Dryblower Jack – pioneer profile

John Carins – know as Dryblower Jack:- John was born in Newcastle on Tyne, in Northumberland, England in 1890 and was educated in Rutherford College in that town.  He was said to have come to Australia in 1913, he had a discharge certificate from the British services. As a young man he worked at various […]

Eh! but she was a good girl – grave tales

It is a far cry from Coolgardie to Corbie in the Somme Valley in France. Still, in 1916, a Salvation Army Chaplin, Benjamin Orames, who as a boy had been on the Goldfields of Coolgardie, found himself in Corbie seeking the town mayor who he located in a dugout. While shells blasted the historic building […]