Joseph Henry DOWER wedding photograph - Ancestry.com
Joseph Henry DOWER
Age at Death28 years 5 months
Date Of Death8 March 1898 : Reg 443/1898
Place Of BirthLong Gully, Sandhurst (now Bendigo), Victoria
OccupationMiner
Spouse's NameCatherine Louisa JENKINS
ChildrenVida Gladys born 1891 - Arthur Ernest born 1893 - Louisa Catherine born 1896
West Australian, Friday 11 March 1898
Menzies Miner, Saturday 12 March 1898
Source: ancestry.com.au
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
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
Eclipse GM, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Dower had been employed in the work of connecting pipes for a dump at the 100ft level. He stepped on to a bucket, intending to go to the 200ft level to take a spanner down, and was in the act of signalling to the engine driver, when the "monkey" suddenly dropped, evidently striking Dower after carrying away the stop on the rope. Dower was at the 100ft level at the time that the mishap carried him to 200ft, at which depth he struck the water forcibly. He died a few days later.
Place Of Burial
Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Widowed
District
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
William Prisk DOWER
Mother
Harriet Ann TOY
Place of marriage
Long Gully Methodist Church, Victoria 1890
Other Information
His son, Pvt Arthur Dower, was killed at the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin in October 1918.
