Ted Hammond: the story of a Mount Isa Miner who never came home

Derek Barry
Updated July 21 2021 - 3:01pm, first published 2:26pm
Ted and Olive Hammond on their wedding day in 1951.
Ted and Olive Hammond on their wedding day in 1951.

Ted Hammond is one of the 150 Mount Isa Mines workers who went to work one day and never came home.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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