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Linda Bristow (centre), the great niece of Evan Whiting killed in the 1918 Kuranda rail tragedy, thanks Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Employees’ state secretary Mick McKitrick (left) and president Anthony Woodward for the new grave. Picture: Nick Dalton

Rail tragedy recalled

MORE than 100 years after he died, a fitting grave for railway fireman Evan Whiting was unveiled at Cairns cemetery last Saturday.

10 December, 2024

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