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    The Pensioner Guards were English military personnel who served on convict transportation ships en route to colonial Western Australia between 1850 and...
    15 KB (1,587 words) - 15:09, 26 May 2024
  • The handsome parsonage was named "Braybrook". Enrolled Pensioner Guards had volunteered as guards on the ships transporting convicts to Western Australia...
    25 KB (3,428 words) - 15:59, 28 February 2025
  • internal promotions.: 29  On convict ships, the convicts were guarded by pensioner guards, who were soldiers awarded pensions for their service in areas such...
    26 KB (2,666 words) - 03:30, 2 February 2025
  • Hill Dixon. Also on board was 10-year-old George Throssell, a son of a pensioner, who later became the second Premier of Western Australia. The arrival...
    18 KB (529 words) - 10:05, 24 July 2023
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    The sale of the Pensioner Guard Cottage created public disagreement among some members of the Bassendean community. Pensioner Guards were British army...
    12 KB (1,343 words) - 04:17, 20 August 2024
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    Patrick Stone (category Pensioner Guards)
    1926, and was buried in Geraldton Cemetery. Stone not listed among 89 pensioner guards and their families aboard William Hammond. Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey...
    5 KB (604 words) - 15:55, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Fremantle, Western Australia
    development of North Fremantle was the arrival of convicts, and pensioner guards in 1850. Pensioner guards were granted land in North Fremantle. In 1851 John Bruce...
    7 KB (535 words) - 21:57, 1 January 2025
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    Until 17 March 1834, they were known as The Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. The corps was formed as the Troop of Gentlemen in 1509 by King Henry...
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  • James Forbes (storekeeper) (category Pensioner Guards)
    James Forbes (1828-1906) was an Enrolled Pensioner Guard who had arrived in the Swan River Colony in Western Australia aboard Pyrenees on 28 June 1851...
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    now called West Toodyay. Temporary accommodation for the Enrolled Pensioner Guards was also constructed and surveys were carried out to enable more permanent...
    10 KB (1,414 words) - 04:39, 25 May 2024
  • Francis Kirk (category Pensioner Guards)
    was one of a number of Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) who came to the Swan River Colony between 1850 and 1868, to guard and oversee the work of the prisoners...
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    use of Kardinya began in 1870 when fourteen lots were allocated to Pensioner Guards. These lots were used for piggeries, poultry farms and vineyards. In...
    56 KB (5,604 words) - 12:44, 4 March 2025
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    superintendent.: 44 : 29  On convict ships, the convicts were guarded by pensioner guards, who were soldiers awarded pensions for their service in areas such...
    136 KB (12,886 words) - 13:15, 25 January 2025
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    A Chelsea Pensioner, or In-Pensioner, is a resident at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, an Old Soldiers' retirement home and nursing home for former members...
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  • Thumbnail for Gregory, Western Australia
    Australia's most active explorers. In May 1853 sixty convicts and Pensioner Guards arrived from England via Fremantle in the brigantine Leander and the...
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  • Owen Hackett (category Pensioner Guards)
    number of Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) that came to colonial Western Australia between 1850 and 1868. Their role was to guard and oversee the work...
    7 KB (885 words) - 15:55, 26 May 2024
  • David Gailey (category Pensioner Guards)
    number of Enrolled Pensioner Guards (EPGs) who came to colonial Western Australia between 1850 and 1868. Their role was to guard and oversee the work...
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  • Thumbnail for Claremont, Western Australia
    government allocated land on the foreshore and at Butler's Swamp to 19 Pensioner Guards and their families, and a permanent convict depot operated at Freshwater...
    14 KB (1,496 words) - 21:01, 6 February 2025
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    Barracks Arch (category Pensioner Guards)
    from 1863 to 1866 to house the Enrolled Pensioner Force. The Enrolled Pensioner Force came to Australia as guards on convict ships, and were given small...
    10 KB (893 words) - 17:28, 28 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lynton Convict Hiring Depot
    brigantine Leander, which transferred 60 ticket-of-leave convicts and Pensioner Guards (retired British soldiers) that had arrived at Fremantle on Pyrenees...
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