Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Darryl Lyall SANDFORD
Age at Death27
Date Of Death13 June 1989 : Reg 20/1989 Mt Margaret
Place Of BirthPossibly Victoria
OccupationMiner
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Memorial.
Fiance Kim Bikaunieks holds a photo of her late fiance at his sister's wedding. (ABC Pilbara: Sonia Feng)
Roy Hansson and Deborah Reader remember their brother at the Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial in Kalgoorlie-Boulder. (ABC News: Jarrod Lucas)
An article in the Kalgoorlie Miner newspaper in the aftermath of the 1989 Emu mine disaster. (Supplied: Kalgoorlie Miner)
Darryl SANDFORD -
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Emu GM AG Decline, Leinster, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Heavy rain caused the mine to flood, drowning six men: Brett Ronald HANSSON age 27, Terreance Michael MARTIN age 28, Kerry William PETERS age 35, Timothy Henry PROCTOR age 30, Darryl Lyall SANDFORD age 27, and Darrin WILLIAMS age 23.
Place Of Burial
Wangaratta Cemetery, Wangaratta Rural City, Victoria, Australia
Submitted by
Shari-Lei McLean (Volunteer). Updated by D.McMillan (volunteer)
MSW
Engaged to Kim Bikaunieks
District
Leinster
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
William Leslie SANDFORD
Mother
Edith Amy SUTHERLAND
Other Information
Story: https://www.wavmm.com/2018/06/13/remember-the-emu/
Story: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-13/heart-still-broken-three-decades-after-fiance-died-in-emu-mine/11204162
