Here we have stories about Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) in separate sections, just scroll down:
- What’s New … Joe Average – What was the average Enrolled Pensioner Guard like ?
- What’s New … Enrolled Guard 1880-1887 Formation to Disbandment
- What’s New … Check out Jeanette Lee’s stories below on Wellington & William Jones and Waterloo and Edward Tierney
- Western Australian Locations
- Background to the Enrolled Pensioner Force
- EPGs as Police
- EPGs at War
- Stories about EPGs and their Families
- Stories about Ships
- EPG Descendants of Note e.g. Geoff Gallop, Darren Glass and Heath Ledger
- There is also a list of web sites to help your research listed at the bottom of the page
WHAT’S NEW!
- Joe Average – What was the average Enrolled Pensioner Guard like ?
- Enrolled Guard 1880-1887 Formation to Disbandment
- William Jones our man with Wellington by Jeanette Lee
- Pensioner Guards and Waterloo – Edward Tierney – by Jeanette Lee
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
- Joe Average – What was the average Enrolled Pensioner Guard like ?
- 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 and Enrolled Guard 1880-1887 Formation to Disbandment
- Conditions and Future Prospects of Pensioners – Newspaper Articles 1864 from April 2013
- EPG Soldiers Account Book – Going to Pensio
- Why Transportation Ceased – Sunday Times Sunday 3 August 1902 page 4
- The Enrolled Pensioner Guard – The Perth Gazette and West Australian Times Friday 11 November 1864 page 2 and 3
- Our First Army – Report on EPG – West Australian Thursday 20 December 1928 page 24
- History of the EPG – The Daily News Saturday 16 June 1934 page 14
- Enrolled Guard details on disbandment – The Inquirer & Commercial News Wednesday 6 April 1887 page 5
- 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
- To be or not to be an EPG – Murder on the Runnymede 1856
- Pensions – Q – Were they Beer Money?
- The 61 Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) not on Convict Ships
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 (ALPHABETICAL)
- James Adlam the Pound keeper
- Joseph Adlam April 2012 EPG Gazette
- George Bagg by Marion Cull 2009 October EPG Gazette
- Thomas Bryan and Family – Strike up the Band EPG_2008_-Vol_9_1_jan
- A Nonogenerian Looks Back – David Butchart circa 1929 – contributed by Debbie Stirk – January 2012 EPG Gazette
- The Girl and the Army – Behind many good men was an even stronger woman – wife of EPG William Butler – Mary Polson
- James and Cornellius Callaghan or O’Callaghan – Are they brothers by Richard O’Callaghan EPG Gazette October 2011
- Our only Aussie born Enrolled Pensioner Guard – John Carroll
- Michael Carroll Rifle Brigade by Terry Carroll EPG Gazette 2002 No 2
- Mary Carson Midwife – m James Carson by Jean McDonald October 2010 EPG Gazette
- Carson leaves on Laughing Water
- George Clark by Daryl Nelson July 2012 EPG Gazette
- Clayton John EPG_2006_-_Vol_7-4__Oct
- James Connor EIC and sons – Peter Conole and Jean McDonald July 2009 EPG Gazette
- Farrell Cornelly by Lauren Shannon January 2014 EPG Gazette
- Henry and Sarah Critch
- Sarah Cross Anglican baptism
- James Fallon Saved by an Emu by Jeanette Lee 2015 3 Newsletter January 2015 Vol 15 No 3
- James Feltham – FHWA EPG SIG – 2020 December 10
- Finlay William EPG_2006_-_Vol_7-1__Jan and
- William Finlay’s Son EPG_2008_-Vol_9_4_Oct
- Family history – Richard Flanagan by Peter Wagner 2019
- Sgt John Flynn by Peter Conole and Jean McDonald – July 2010 EPG Gazette
- James Gorman by Jean McDonald and Peter Conole EPG Gazette October 2009
- How Tom Grady Cleared the Guns – Ellis Williams Poem – EPG Gazette April 2010 and
- Thomas Grady VC EPG_2005 Vol 6-3_Jul
- James Graham Sgt Peter Conole and Jean McDonald April 2011 EPG Gazette
- David Hackett – A boys Courage EPG Gazette 2007 No 3
- Gunner William Hardman 1807 to 1878 – An extract from the Hardman Family History by Max Hardman
- Death of Isaac Helliwell
- Hill William 63rd Regiment EPG_Gazette_2005_-_Vol_6-1__Jan
- Robert Holgate EPG Gazette 2002 No 4
- Edward James by Peter Conole and Diane Oldman – January 2013 EPG Gazette
- William Stewart Jones by Beryl Dancer EPG Gazette October 2011
- William Jones our man with Wellington by Jeanette Lee June 2021
- Thomas Kelly of Lincelles and Family – Peter Conole and Jean McDonald – January 2012 EPG Gazette
- John Kenny – Peter Conole and Jean McDonald – July 2011 EPG Gazette
- John Kirwan Military Record
- William Lennox by Diane Oldman and Peter Conole October 2014 EPG Gazette
- Thomas Martin by Jean McDonald February 2010 EPG Gazette
- McArdle Michael and his family – National Archives of Australia and story from Jeanette Lee c2015
- Daniel McCarthy the last EPG in WA
- John McNamaras daughter Bridget c 1957
- Thomas and William McCreery EPG_2008_-Vol_9_4_Oct
- Thomas Minorgan by Jeffery W Oates – 2020 and
- Thomas Minorgan EPG Gazette 2001 No 2
- Naylor Henry Dyson Talk by Stephen Anstey Perth Museum c 2012
- Patrick Neeson and Perth Town Lot L74 EPG Gazette 2017 no 3
- Francis O’Byrne Obituary The Daily News WA 21 June 1928
- Daniel O’Connell – Most Successful EPG Policeman by Peter Conole February 2009 EPG Gazette
- William Thomas Pollet by Peter Conole and Jean McDonald – April 2009 EPG Gazette
- You’ll not see nothing like the Mighty Alexander Quinn
- Robert Ramsay EPG_2008_-Vol_9_4_Oct
- Riley John – Obituary Western Mail 27 Sep 1902
- Obituary of Osborne Richie
- Jeffrey Ringwood
- Robert Robertson by Jeanette Lee EPG Gazette 2018 No 4
- James Rourke – WA Quarter Sessions – February 2010 EPG Gazette
- Captain John Sheridan – The West Australian 10 Sep1936
- John Stokes – An Operation Delayed – by Peter Conole and Jean McDonald – February 2010 EPG Gazette
- John Sullivan EPG_2007_-_Vol_8-4__Oct
- SROWA Cons 3458 1997 159 – John and Bridget Sullivan
- One Son Makes Good – an EPG Tale of Alexander Sutherland – FHWA EPG SIG – 2021 14 January
- Samuel Sutton – by Ron Sutton July 2009 EPG Gazette
- Pensioner Guards and Waterloo – Edward Tierney – by Jeanette Lee June 2021
- Mathias Jeremiah Tuohill by Jeanette Lee EPG Gazette April 2019
- Vagg Edward EPG_2006_-_Vol_7-1__Jan
- William White and Family – Arthur Allen by Peter Conole – 2016 Newsletter No 3 and 4
- Inspiring Poet Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop (related to Jackson Winder)
- Jeremiah Woolhouse
- Animations of Guards 2 March 2021 – James Crowe, William Houstone, Thomas Minorgan, Samuel Sutton & Joseph Wright:
STORIES ABOUT SHIPS
- Details on all the EPG Ships
- William Hammond Surgeon’s Journal
- York 1862 – Journal by John CLEGG
- Dudbrook the Complete Story
- 159 Years since the Lincelles Arrived – FhWA – WA EPG SIG – 2021 27 Jan
- Doctor Doctor Give me the News – the Surgeon’s Journal Pyrenees 1853
- Racehorse Diary of Pensioner Joseph Wright – Transcribed Jeanette Lee
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
EPGs AND DESCENDANTS OF NOTE (LINKED TO THEIR EPG)
- WA Premiers Geoff Gallop and George Throssell
- Midwives and Nurses of note Mary Carson, Margaret Porter and Annie Cadden
- Elizabeth Hamilton Dunlop poet and aunt of EPG Jackson Winder‘s wife
- Jane Swain Glass daughter in law of EPG Thomas Adams
- Parliamentarian Patrick Stone who married convict James Elphinstone Roe’s daughter Helen
- Michael O’Dea businessman and sportsman
- Actor Heath Ledger x 2
- Footballers Barry Cable, Darren Glass and Daniel Bandy
- William Finlay 1st Mayor Albany
- Victoria Cross EPG Tom O’Grady and Hugo Throssell
- Distinguished Conduct Medals EPGs Tom O’Grady and George Lee
- Charge of the Light Brigade – EPG Henry Dyson Naylor
- Most Successful EPG Policeman – Daniel O’Connell
- Tunney is a town located between Kojonup and Cranbrook, named after the son of EPG Sgt John Tunney
- Leighton’s Crossing named after Ann Leighton daughter-in-law of EPG John Leighton
- Perth suburb Bentley and EPG John Bentley – they named a suburb after him
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