Here we have stories about EPGs, their lives and loves. Check out the story of Anna and the King – if you remember the movies … why didn’t they mention that Anna lived in Port Gregory before going to Siam (Thailand) to teach !!

There is also a list of web sites to help your research listed at the bottom of the page.

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN LOCATIONS

• Barracks Arch Open House and History
• Butler’s Swamp
• Citation 2009 on East Perth Cemetery to Royal WA Historical Society
• Claremont Pensioner Guard Village
• East Perth Cemetery
• Enrolled Pensioner Cottage Bassendean
• EPG Hospital Site – Secret Tunnels or not – some history articles from the West Australian 1934-1939
• Fire at Pensioners Barracks
• Fremantle Invalid Depot History – Fremantle Stuff
• Mount Eliza Depot
• Northam History
• Old Barracks by J.S. Battye
• Pensioner Barracks Fremantle
• Port Gregory
• Skinner St Cemetery and Church of England Registers

BACKGROUND TO THE ENROLLED PENSIONER FORCE

• Tilbury Fort
• Background to the Arrival of the EPG
• The Pension System – By Friends Remembered
• Charitable Soldiers – Relief Funds
• Notice to Pensioners Serving in the Colonies
• Aussie Rules and the EPG in 1868
• EPF Disbanded 1887
• Conditions and Future Prospects of Pensioners – Newspaper Articles 1864 from April 2013
• EPG Soldiers Account Book – Going to Pensio
• Pensioners Return 1868 – Status

PENSIONERS AS POLICE:

• Did Your Guard Serve in the Police
• Class of 1851 – EPFs Who became Constables
• Class of 1852 – EPFs Who became Constables
• Class of 1853 – EPFs Who became Constables
• Into the Blue (Police) after the Crimea

SOMETHING INTERESTING

• Anna and the King
• The Formation of the EPG SIG
• Catalpa – The Fenian Escape
• Emma is Wrecked 1867

ENROLLED PENSIONER GUARDS AT WAR

• Did Your Man Earn a Campaign Medal?
• Five Forgotten Crimean War Medals
• Dragoons or Lancers .. 
• Siege of Lucknow
• Relief of Lucknow 1857
• Afghan Wars: The Kyber Pass
• The First Opium War
• First Sikh War – Military Pensioners in WA
• Our First Army – Address by Colonel Collett
• Red Feathers – the 46th Regiment
• EPGs and New Zealand Wars
• Small Arms of the EPF by Stan Gratte of Walkaway Museum

STORIES ABOUT ENROLLED PENSIONER GUARD AND THEIR FAMILIES

• John Kirwan Military Record
• Henry and Sarah Critch
• Jeffrey Ringwood
• Jeremiah Woolhouse
• Family history – Richard Flanagan
• Mathias Jeremiah Tuohill
• William Lennox
• Farrell Cornelly
• Edward James
• Thomas Kelly of Lincelles and Family
• A Nonogenerian Looks Back – David Butchart circa 1929
• Joseph Adlam
• George Clark
• Thomas Martin
• Sgt John Flynn
• Mary Carson Midwife – m James Carson
• John Stokes – An Operation Delayed
• John Kenny
• James Rourke – WA Quarter Sessions
• James Graham Sgt
• How Tom Grady Cleared the Guns – Ellis Williams Poem
• Daniel O’Connell – Most Successful EPG Policeman
• James and Cornellius Callaghan or O’Callaghan – Are they brothers?
• James Connor EIC and sons
• Samuel Sutton
• William Stewart Jones
• William Thomas Polle
• James Gorman
• George Bagg
• Thomas Minorgan
• David Hackett – A boys Courage
• Robert Holgate
• Michael Carroll Rifle Brigade
• Francis O’Byrne Obituary The Daily News WA 21 June 1928
• Edward Stanton
• John McNamaras daughter Bridget c 1957
• McArdle Michael and his family – National Archives of Australia and story from Jeanette Lee
• Naylor Henry Dyson Talk by Stephen Anstey Perth Museum
• Captain John Sheridan – The West Australian 10 Sep 1936
• Patrick Neeson and Perth Town Lot L74
• Robert Robertson
• Thomas Bryan and Family – Strike up the Band
• William Finlay’s Son
• James Fallon Saved by an Emu
• William White and Family – Arthur Allen
• Robert Ramsay
• Thomas and William McCreery
• John Sullivan
• Clayton John
• Finlay William
• Vagg Edward
• Thomas Grady VC 
• Hill William 63rd Regiment
• RILEY John – Obituary Western Mail 27 Sep 1902
• Obituary of Osborne Richie
• Death of Isaac Helliwell
• James Adlam the Pound keeper
• Sarah Cross Anglican baptism
• Carson leaves on Laughing Water

STORIES ABOUT SHIPS

• Details on all the EPG Ships
• William Hammond Surgeon’s Journal
• York 1862 – Journal by John CLEGG
• Dudbrook the Complete Story
• Racehorse Diary of Pensioner Joseph Wright – Transcribed Jeanette Lee

FACEBOOK STORIES (IN DATE ORDER)

• James Feltham – FHWA EPG SIG – 2020 December 10
• Tragedy and Intertwined Lives – FHWA EPG SIG – 2020 December 14
• Where there’s a WILL there’s a WAY – FHWA EPG SIG – 2020 December 20
• One Son Makes Good – an EPG Tale – FHWA EPG SIG – 2021 14 January
• 159 Years since the Lincelles Arrived – FhWA – WA EPG SIG – 2021 27 Jan
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me – FHWA – WA EPG SIG 2021 Feb 2

WEB SITES

• FamilyHistoryWA
• Crimean War Veterans WA
• East Perth Cemeteries
• Metropolitan Cemeteries Perth
• Redcoat Settlers in WA
• Sappers and Miners WA
• WA Birth Death and Marriages
• WA Museum Welcome Walls

EPG UNIFORM BACK AND FRONT REPLICAS (CLICK TO ENLARGE):

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