Warragamba Dam Workers MemorialPrint Page

The memorial honours the 15 labourers, carpenters, drillers, and other workers who died in workplace accidents while building the dam, constructing the emergency pipeline or clearing the valley. The memorial was unveiled during the 50th anniversary celebrations.

For close to 20 years, 1800 people from more than 25 nations worked three shifts a day, seven days a week to build Warragamba Dam, and the result was an engineering marvel that continues to provide most of Sydney’s water today.

Those killed during the construction are listed below : -

• Sidney Richard Tunks, 34 years, labourer – 8 November 1938 (Warragamba Emergency Supply Scheme)
• George Miller, 44 years, miner – 25 July 1939 (Warragamba Emergency Supply Scheme)
• Murdoch Currans, 57 years, pipe layer – 14 November 1939 (Warragamba Emergency Supply Scheme)
• Karl Ludwig Gustavsen, 56 years, rigger – 7 May 1946
• Harold Raymond Hodgson, 40 years, labourer - 3 November 1947
• Patrick William Kenna, 67 years, compressor operator – 22 April 1948
• William Frederick Gibb, 27 years, fitter - 21 February 1949
• Radoslavo Martini, 28 years, labourer – 31 October 1950
• Robert Knox Grant, 48 years, plant operator – 27 February 1952
• Ronald Marney, 21 years, compressor driver –17 September 1953
• Makovej Andronescu, 29 years, labourer – 23 July 1954
• Vytautas Andrikis, 29 years, diamond driller –16 July 1955
• Robert Pickering, 29 years, carpenter –19 February 1957
• Marjan Palecek, 23 years, carpenter's labourer – 1 May 1958
• Raffaele Princi, 18 years, labourer - 21 June 1958

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