Sandstone Cemetery Western Australia - Photo Danelle Warock
Samuel “Sam” URE
Date Of Death25 April 1932 : Reg 9084/2000 Perth
OccupationProspector
West Australian, Wednesday 27 April 1932, page 10
Kalgoorlie Miner, Wednesday 4 May 1932
Eastern Goldfields Miners Memorial at the WA Museum, Kalgoorlie.
Daily News, Tuesday 3 May 1932
Oroya Black Range GM near Sandstone, WA
Sandstone Cemetery, Western Australia - Photo and plaque by outbackgraves.org
Name Of Mine On Which Last Employed
Oroya GM, Sandstone, Western Australia
Diagnosis or cause of accident
Buried in a mine cave-in. Rescuers came close to digging him out, but further falls put their lives in danger. Rescuers were within a meter of Ure and could hear him breathing. Jack Tetlow, Billy Pearse and Jimmy Boase received a Royal Humane Society medal for their acts of courage. Now an open-cut mine, Ure's body was revealed in 1995 and reburied in the Sandstone Cemetery.
Ref:- The West Australian, Big Weekend, 11 November 1995, Reports body recovered in June 1995 and buried in Sandstone - from Ian Murray
Place Of Burial
Sandstone Cemetery, Western Australia
Submitted by
David McMillan - Volunteer
Cause of Death
Mine Accidents
Other Information
Ure, Samuel. "More Lonely Graves of Western Australia. (2000) Coate, Yvonne & Kevin. Hesperian Press. Page 39
Story - Tragedy and Bravery on the Black Range - https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/tragedy-and-bravery-on-the-black-range/
Story - When Death Creeps in - https://www.outbackfamilyhistoryblog.com/when-death-creeps-in/
