4336B/109: Florence Smeed outside Bonnie Vale after the death by drowning in Walpole Inlet of her husband and six other members of her family, Denmark region, Western Australia, 1911.

Summary

One of Florence's brothers appears in white in the background, the girl on the water tank is unknown."Wilson's Inlet on the south coast near Denmark was the scene of a yachting disaster on Sunday afternoon last, when a small sailing boat capsized during a squall and all the occupants-four adults and three children-were drowned. The victims, some of whom were known in Perth, were:- William Leonard Smeed, sen., aged about 60 years ; Albert William Smeed (son), aged about 35 years, and his two children : Bertha Smeed, aged five years, and Everard Smeed, aged three years ; Leonard Smeed (son), aged about 26 years. Mrs. Wright (daughter), aged 23 years, and her daughter aged two years" -- The West Australia, 7 November 1911, p. 4.