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• 6 March 2019

  Exploration of the Irwin Districts

  Within fifteen years of the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, the settlers were experiencing the problems of isolation, a small population and severe drought. Although the British…

• 6 March 2019

  1917 Casualties

  • John Lewis Broad
  • Norman Leslie Carter
  • Frederick William Collins
  • Herbert Melbourne Criddle
  • Herbert Leslie Hood
  • Robert Francis Fitzgerald
  • Alexander Johnstone
  • Charles Joseph Byro Nairn
  • Leslie Gordon Norley
  • Francis William Pascoe
  • Frederick James Pascoe
  • Claudius Claremont Pell
  • Walter Samuel Pettit
  • Charles Johnson Rowland
  • George Forrestor Rowland
  • Silas John Rowland
  • William Joseph Rowland
  • William Whelan (Wheelan)

• 6 March 2019

  1918 Casualties

  • George Brown
  • George Oriel Cousins
  • Vaughan Edgar Foss
  • Hurtle Henry Fergusson
  • Robert Pell
  • Charles Purcell
  • John Eardley Walker

• 4 March 2019

  A Brief History of the Irwin Districts

  A short chronological history of the Irwin Districts since colonisation

• 1 March 2019

  A Port for the Irwin District

  Situated on Arurine Bay, a townsite was surveyed as “Denison” in 1866, but was generally referred to as “Port Irwin” up to the 1880’s. It was later called “Port Dongara”…

• 1 March 2019

  The Story of the Leander

  The 173 ton brigantine Leander was built in New Brunswick in 1849 of birch, pine and spruce and was fastened with iron bolts. Her owners were Smith and Company and…