Russian Jack
Deceased Person
1864 – 1904
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Who was Russian Jack?
Ivan Fredericks, known as Russian Jack, was a goldminer of the Western Australian gold rush in the 1880s. In 1885, while working in the Halls Creek goldmines, he pushed his sick friend in a wheelbarrow 300 km through the Great Sandy Desert to Wyndham, the nearest town with a medical centre. A statue was erected to him in Halls Creek. He is buried in Fremantle Cemetery
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