In Loving Memory Dedicated to the 75 Men Who Died in the Mount
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In Loving Memory Dedicated to the 75 men who died in the Mount Mulligan mine disaster of 19 September 1921 Commemorating the 100th Anniversary 1921 ~ 2021 By Alisa Patterson “Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark” From ‘Crossing the Bar’ by Alfred Tennyson. ‘Mourning wives and mothers. Night and day they watched, hoping against hope.’ Source: Sydney Mail (NSW), Wednesday 5 October 1921, page 15. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162034191 Image on front cover sourced from Trove Online, National Libraries of Australia – “Sketch from the Worker after the Mount Mulligan mining disaster, 1921. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.” http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/47952856 Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 6 The Abel Family of Thornborough ..................................................................................................... 10 Road to Mount Mulligan ................................................................................................................... 11 Tragical Days: The Disaster through the Press ......................................................................... 12 Summary Tables................................................................................................................................. 22 Place Associations ................................................................................................................................ 22 Age ........................................................................................................................................................ 26 Military Service ...................................................................................................................................... 28 Qld Register of Deaths .......................................................................................................................... 32 Thomas ADAMS ................................................................................................................................. 35 Thomas ADCOCK ............................................................................................................................... 36 James Maxwell BEATTIE (aged 32 years) ..................................................................................... 37 Irving BELL (aged 24 years) ............................................................................................................ 40 Herbert BOLLEN ................................................................................................................................. 42 Frank Norman BUTCHER.................................................................................................................. 44 Donald BUTLER .................................................................................................................................. 47 Thomas CAMM (aged 55 years) ..................................................................................................... 48 John (‘Jack’) CARNEY / CAIRNEY .................................................................................................. 49 James CARSON (aged 41 years) .................................................................................................... 52 William (Bill) Charles COLE .................................................................................................................. 55 Peter CONOPLIA (aged 36 / 41 years) ........................................................................................... 56 James Spence CUNNINGHAM ............................................................................................................ 62 Philip DOYLE ....................................................................................................................................... 64 John Anthony ‘Jack’ DRIER (aged 43 years, father) .................................................................... 65 John William Henry DRIER (aged 17 years, son) ........................................................................... 72 Thomas John EVANS (aged 36 years) .......................................................................................... 73 William Albert / Alfred FISHER ....................................................................................................... 83 John ‘Jack’ FITZPATRICK ................................................................................................................. 85 John FOGARTY (aged about 30 years) ........................................................................................ 88 Francis ‘Frank’ Vicars GIELIS ......................................................................................................... 90 Francis ‘Frank’ GRANT (aged 37 years) ......................................................................................... 94 Albert (Piper) HALL (aged 28 years, WW1) ................................................................................... 97 Henry HARRISON.............................................................................................................................. 101 Cecil George HAWES (aged 45 years, father) ............................................................................ 103 Thomas Gordon Norman HAWES (aged 17 years, son) ............................................................. 106 John HENRY ...................................................................................................................................... 107 Edward David James HUTTON (aged 32 years, brother of Thomas Hutton) ....................... 108 Thomas HUTTON (aged 37 years, brother of Edward James Hutton) ............................... 113 Thomas (Tom) Sherlock HYNES (aged 25 years, WW1) ........................................................... 114 Hugh JACKSON (aged 35 years).................................................................................................. 119 George Doran JAMES (aged about 39 years, father) .............................................................. 122 George Robert JAMES (aged about 18 years, son) ................................................................... 128 Ludwig JOACHIMZIK (aged 31/32 years) ..................................................................................... 129 William JOHNSTONE ....................................................................................................................... 131 Alick (Alex / Alaxs) KAZLOFF / CASLOFF ..................................................................................... 132 William KEIRS .................................................................................................................................... 138 Frank Loftus LATIMER (aged 24 years) ..................................................................................... 139 Robert Ernest / William LEARY (aged 24 years) .......................................................................... 140 Oliver LEWIS (also known as John Lawson / Jack Lawson) (aged 26 years) ....................... 145 Sydney LIVERSIDGE (aged 43/44 years, WW1) ....................................................................... 146 Jack LOMAX ....................................................................................................................................... 148 James LOUGHRIE ............................................................................................................................ 149 William Harry MANSFIELD (aged about 34 years)................................................................... 150 Percy William MARKS (aged 30 years) ........................................................................................ 152 Harold MARTIN ................................................................................................................................. 158 Samuel McCOLM (aged 41 years) ................................................................................................. 160 Roland McCORMACK (aged 16 years) ......................................................................................... 168 Duncan Alexander McINTYRE (aged 32 years) ............................................................................ 173 Paul MINOGUE ................................................................................................................................... 177 Rupert Edmund/Edward MORGAN ............................................................................................... 180 George MOUNSEY (aged 46 years) ............................................................................................... 181 John NIXON (Boer War) ................................................................................................................... 185 James O’BOYLE (aged 31 years) .................................................................................................. 187 Martin Francis O’GRADY................................................................................................................. 190 John (‘Jack’) O’HALLORAN (aged 23 years) .............................................................................