The Morning Bulletin, Wednesday 20 March 1912
(Rockhampton, Queensland)

FATAL ACCIDENT IN KEPPEL BAY
A wharf labourer named Richard Phillips, a resident of North Rockhampton, met with a fatal accident at about midday on Monday while assisting to discharge the cargo, brought from the south by the A.U.S.N. Company’s steamer Wyreema, into a lighter. The deceased had proceeded down to Keppel Bay with other members of the Waterside Workers’ Union in the tender Taldora, and with several other men was working on the lighter. A sling of cargo, which had just been raised from the Wyreema’s hold, collapsed, and its contents fell on to the lighter. A bag of bacon struck the deceased on the head and he received injuries from which he died. The Taldora was the only tender in Keppel Bay at the time, and the body was brought to town in her on Tuesday morning. Dr. W. O. Doyle subsequently held a post-mortem examination of the body. The deceased was a married man and leaves a wife and four young children. The members of the Waterside Workers’ Union will attend the funeral, which will leave the St. Barnabas’s Church, North Rockhampton, at ten o’clock this morning.

The Capricornian, Saturday 23 March 1912
(Rockhampton, Queensland)

FATAL ACCIDENT IN KEPPEL BAY
A wharf labourer named Richard Phillips, a resident of North Rockhampton, met with a fatal accident at about midday on Monday while assisting to discharge the cargo, brought from the south by the A.U.S.N. Company’s steamer Wyreema, into a lighter. The deceased had proceeded down to Keppel Bay with other members of the Waterside Workers’ Union in the tender Taldora, and with several other men was working on the lighter. A sling of cargo, which had just been raised from the Wyreema’s hold, collapsed, and its contents fell on to the lighter. A bag of bacon struck the deceased on the head and he received injuries from which he died. The Taldora was the only tender in Keppel Bay at the time, and the body was brought to town in her on Tuesday morning. Dr. W. O. Doyle subsequently held a post-mortem examination of the body. The deceased was a married man and left a wife and four children.

The Capricornian, Saturday 22 March 1913
(Rockhampton, Queensland)

IN MEMORIAM
PHILLIPS.—In affectionate memory of Richard (Dick) Phillips, born 1876, at St. Mary’s. Scilly Isles, West Cornwall, England. Accidently killed, 19th March, 1912, in Keppel Bay, Rockhampton.
What though in lonely grief I sigh,
For friends beloved no longer nigh,
Submissive, would I still reply:
“Thy will be done.”
(Inserted by his sorrowing Wife and Children, North Rockhampton.)
Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
(Inserted by his sorrowing Father, Mother, and Brother, George, and Grace, and William George Phillips, North Parramatta, Sydney.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho