HOLLOW, Joseph Henry
| Service Number: | 2382 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | Mining Corps |
| Born: | Eldorado, Victoria, Australia, 1874 |
| Home Town: | Southern Cross, Yilgarn, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Stomach Ulcers, Southern Cross, Yilgarn, Western Australia, 20 September 1928 |
| Cemetery: |
Southern Cross Cemetery, Western Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Jan 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 2382, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
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| 31 Jan 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 2382, Mining Corps, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 31 Mar 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 2382, Mining Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Mar 1916: | Embarked Sapper, 2382, Mining Corps, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney |
Family and mates went gold prospecting
The Hollow family were pioneers of Eldorado, Victoria, Australia. After the war, Alf Heaton and Joe Hollows, visited Southern Cross , WA, in 1924. They also found gold, and after two months prospecting discovered a payable lode.
Their reward lease was known as Heaton and Hollow's Find. At the time of discovery it was described as a lode of greenstone, quartz and micaceous schist, with quartz veins carrying gold. Three shafts had been sunk to 10 feet on a lode 300 feet long, striking north-west, the lode 4 to 8 inches wide.
The main shaft would eventually reach 80 feet depth.
Water shortages and distance to a battery plagued their operations at the mine.
In 1926, the Glenelg Hills Merredin Gold Mining Syndicate took out a working option over the mine.
Heaton and Hollows took off to prospect in the nearby Forrestania region. While out there, Hollows died, aged 54, of a stomach ulcer. He had spent 25 years prospecting the Yilgarn and Kundip areas.
Submitted 25 April 2026 by Les Westerlund