Robert Charles Stewart - Shoalhaven Heads, NSW
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S 34° 51.352 E 150° 44.142
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Robert Charles Stewart, 30, was one of four miners suffocated in the Bulli Coal Mine Disaster of 1965.
Waymark Code: WMJ838
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Date Posted: 10/09/2013
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Four miners suffocated when a pocket of gas ignited in a panel, several hundred yards from the main shaft, on November 9, 1965. Ten mine rescue teams and the Southern Mines Rescue Station worked through the night attempting to extinguish the fire.
Mr. Stewart's body was not found until the next day, with his final poignant words scrawled on a ventilation tube. "Tell wife kids I love them dearly. Can't last 10am. All can think of wife kids. I'm getting weaker. Can't last. Hope can die like man. Can't I.."
The above information was obtained from the website - Illawarra Coal, an Unofficial History of Coal Mining in the Illawarra (
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The tree dedicated to Robert Charles Stewart was sponsored by The Stewart Family & is located in the Curtis Park Arboretum which was officially opened in 2011. The arboretum displays flora found in Eastern Australia.
The dedicated tree, a coastal banksia, is very tall & slender & arches over a pathway.