Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Samuel Picken “Frank” BERRY
Age at Death43
Date Of Death26 March 1915 : Reg 8/1915 North East Coolgardie
Place Of BirthNerring, Victoria, Australia
OccupationMiner
Spouse's NameSarah "Sadie" NEUSS
Kalgoorlie Miner, Saturday 27 March 1915
Kalgoorlie Miner, Saturday 27 March 1915
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - photo Paul Doust
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Danelle Warnock
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo Danelle Warnock
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Sunset GM, Kanowna, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Baling was going on to enable the men to go below, and it was while attending to the baling tank at the surface that Berry fell between it and the edge of the shaft, two hundred feet into nine feet of water at the bottom. A miner, Jack Beteine, descended and brought him up dead.
Place Of Burial
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Married
District
Kanowna
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
George BERRY
Mother
Mary DRESSLER
Place of marriage
Wiluna, Western Australia. 1908
