Biography

This young man was a road train driver working from Carnarvon when he was tragically killed in a road accident.   

He was the second son and third child born to Eloise and Bron Sharp.  His siblings were Eloise Mary Wakelin born 4 July 1946 at Mount Bures, Colchester, Essex, England, and Charles Leonard Palmer born 3 March 1949 at Sallows Farm, Westhall, Suffolk, England.

His parents and two older siblings arrived in Western Australia in December 1949 on the Strathaird.  Bron was a shipwright and had worked in Burma from 1923 to 1938 in the rice milling industry.

Kenneth Dirk, who was born in WA, spent his early life on Dirk Hartog Island.  They had a home until 1959 in Denham, Shark Bay.  The family had a roaming life, travelling from the south-west of Western Australia to Karumba in North Queensland, Birdsville, to the opal fields.

In 1970, Eloise and Bron retired to caretake Deepdale Station.

In 1972, Eloise and Dirk went to the Northern Territory on a six month trip chasing opals and catching barramundi at Borroloola.  She and Bron moved from Deepdale Station to Carnarvon in 1975.

When Iris died at Harrismith, her ashes were scattered near the homestead on the bank above the Robe River at Deepdale Station in the Ashburton district.  A memorial was erected.

In 1996 when Bron died, his ashes were scattered near the scattered ashes of his wife and son on Deepdale Station on the Robe River in the Ashburton district.  There is a memorial just west of the Deepdale Homestead ruins and three crosses on top of a hill, just to the north-west of the homestead.

All three members of this family are featured in this website.