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2024-08-09T20:06:30+09:30

Article CPRT 22/9/2005 on the death of Karl Heinrich Schenk - Obituary and The Passing of a Miner by DR E. G. Kamitakahara Also the editorial  -  A tribute to Karl Heinrich Schenk, a kind, wise and humble man who recently died in an unforseen machinery accident. He will be missed very much. Mentioned: wife Sandra, daughter Lola, son-in-law Gary, grandchildren Euniec and Summer. friends Karl Heinz Hammermeister, Paul Dudas, Hans Herr, Joe Vida CM 00043

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2020-01-12T12:10:19+10:30

On 20/3/1930 William Buckland Durbridge collapsed on his claim.  He was lifted out of the mine by R. Coles and carried to a bed but never regained consciousness and died that night.  His burial service was conducted by the coroner George Burford,

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1939 0077

2019-11-19T23:02:50+10:30

Photo of a Burial Service at the Cemetery and description on the back of photo - handwritten by Alfred North "In the 24 years of the working of this Opal Field, only five deaths have occurred and only one fatal accident when a prospector plunged to the bottom of a 45' shaft owing to an attempted descent on an unspliced rope, he was terribly smashed up and after first aid treatment here, was conveyed to Pt Augusta Hosp. 200 miles by motor & 200 by Rail but succumbed to his injuries." Photo sent by Alfred North, Postmaster at Coober Pedy, to [...]

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2019-01-15T06:10:00+10:30

Yami Lester Obituary CPRT 27/7/17 Click to view article

CM 000372019-01-15T06:10:00+10:30
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