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
- EPG Hospital Site – Secret Tunnels or not – some history articles from the West Australian 1934-1939
- The Old Barracks by J.S. Battye
- Pensioner Barracks Fremantle
- Mount Eliza Depot
- Port Gregory
- East Perth Cemetery
- Skinner St Cemetery and Church of England Registers
- Enrolled Pensioner Cottage Bassendean
- Citation 2009 on East Perth Cemetery to Royal WA Historical Society
- Northam History
- Claremont Pensioner Guard Village
- Butler’s Swamp
- Fire at Pensioners Barracks
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
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
WEB SITES
- FamilyHistoryWA
- Sappers and Miners WA
- Crimean War Veterans WA
- Red Coat Settlers in WA
- Metropolitan Cemeteries Perth
- East Perth Cemeteries
- WA Birth Death and Marriages
- WA Museum Welcome Walls