Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Albert Harris ALLCORN
Age at Death32
Date Of Death8 September 1905 : Reg 198/1905
Place Of BirthShepparton, Victoria
OccupationTrucker/Miner
Kalgoorlie Cemetery. Photo: Danelle Warnock.
Western Mail, Saturday 16 September 1905, page 70
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum, Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Oroya Brown Hill Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Killed by a fall of stone.
Place Of Burial
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia
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District
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
George Allcorn
Mother
Frances nee HANKS
Other Information
An article in "The West Australian" dated Saturday 9th September 1905 "FATAL MINING ACCIDENT, Kalgoorlie. September 8
"A fatal accident occurred in the Oroya mine this afternoon, the victim being a young man named Albert Harris Allcorn, who was working in a stope at the No. 10 level, when about three tons of earth fell oil him, breaking his neck. Allcorn, who was a native of Koorumburra (Vic.), where his father resides, was a new arrival in the State, and had been working for about a week on the Oroya prior to his death. He has a brother in Kalgoorlie."
