Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Ernest Edward Roy TAYLOR
Age at Death36
Date Of Death28 May 1936 : Reg 7/1936 Yilgarn (Registered as Edmund)
OccupationBattery Attendant
Southern Cross Times, Saturday 6 June 1936, page 8
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Great Leviathan GM, Battery, Kennyville, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Was drawn into the machinery by his flapping overcoat. Died the following day in the Southern Cross Hospital.
Place Of Burial
Southern Cross Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
Admin
MSW
Married
District
Kennyville
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
David TAYLOR
Mother
Margaret DUFFY
Other Information
Inquest verdict:- After a short retirement the
jury returned the following verdict "That Edward Roy Taylor died at the District Hospital, Southern Cross, on May 28 from shock; that the deceased sustained his injuries by being caught in a counter shaft on the mine of the Leviathan Amalgamated Gold Mines. Ltd., and that there was no evidence
to show how deceased came to be caught in the counter shaft, and no blame being attachable to anyone."
