Leo Patrick "Paddy" BYRNE - Photo Find a Grave
Leo Patrick “Paddy” BYRNE
Age at Death51
Date Of Death22 February 1954 : Reg 2/1954 Boulder
Place Of BirthYork, Western Australia
OccupationMiner
Spouse's NameAnn Edith EMERY
West Australian, Tuesday 23 February 1954
Dept of Mines Annual Report 1954
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA - Photo Paul Doust
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum in Kalgoorlie WA
Boulder Cemetery, Boulder, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
Boulder Cemetery, Boulder, Western Australia - Photo Find a Grave
War service record
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Ivanhoe GM, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Steel being transported slipped from the cage, crushing Byrne against the shaft timbering.
Place Of Burial
Boulder Cemetery, Boulder, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
MSW
Married
District
Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Father
Frederick Burgess BYRNE
Mother
Mary Anne 'Molly' GURNEY
Place of marriage
Boulder, Western Australia. 1923.
Other Information
WX6155 Paddy was diagnosed medically sick about 17 February 1942 and evacuated from Batavia on the hospital ship 'Wu Sui' which had sailed out of Singapore on 9 February 1942 and left Batavia about 20 February 1942 headed for Columbo.
He was admitted to 12 Australian General Hospital, Columbo on 4 March 1942. He returned to Melbourne 28 March 1942 and hospitalised for several weeks before returning to WA. He was discharged medically unfit 26 June 1942 having returned by train from Melbourne to WA.
Prior to enlisting he was a miner living in Kalgoorlie, where it appears other Byrne family members were also residing.
He came from a large family and several of his brothers enlisted with the military services. Sadly younger brother Mervyn Joseph (Joe) aged 27 years, died in Northam Military Hospital in 1944.
Returning to civilian life, Paddy was living with his wife whom he had married well before the war, and working in Kalgoorlie as a miner. He was to tragically lose his life in a mining accident at the age of 51 years on 22 February 1954.
