Frank Hasleham

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Frank Hasleham, the reporter for the Geelong Advertiser and the Melbourne Herald was camping more than three hundred metres from the Eureka Stockade when it was stormed. He was shot through the shoulder by a mounted policeman and was left handcuffed, bleeding on the ground for over two hours.

Post 1854 Experiences

ONE OF THE OLD EUREKA VICTIMS

We are sorry to record the death of Mr Arthur Hasleham, formerly reporter to the daily News, and afterwards attached to the staff of the Geelong advertiser This melancholy event took place at Ramsgate, Kent, on the 17th day of December last. The deceased will be remembered In connection with the massacre at the Eureka Stockade, he having received some half dozen bullets in the shoulder from some chance shots while engaged in taking notes of the affray for the Melbourne Herald. Mr Hasleham’s claim upon the colony received favourable consideration on 2 separate occasions, the parliament having voted him no later than last year the sum of L500, and a like amount about 7 years since. The deceased left this colony for England in the Lincolnshire , and had only landed in England about a week before he died - the cause of deaths being the wounds he received in the great Ballarat riots of 1854. Mr Hasleham was one of the best theatrical critics in the colony, and his profound knowledge of Shakespeare was something wonderful. He died at his brother’s residence at Ramsgate, as before stated, aged 34 years. - Chronicle.

Further Reading

Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

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