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Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Western Australian Rifle Clubs 1910
Topic: MilitiaRC - WA

WA Militia - Rifle Clubs

1910

Western Australian Rifle Club List, 1910

One of the most important adjuncts to the militia system from 1903 to the re-organisation of 1912 was the role played by the Rifle Club movement in Australia. At the time, these clubs were seen as the reservoir of manpower for a potential guerrilla force should any invasion occur. The doctrine was almost a copy of that pursued by the Boer forces in South Africa which successfully held the Imperial Army at bay for nearly three years. For Australia, the invasion fear was uppermost in the minds of the population. This fear found its articulation in a novel written by Charles H Kirmess (the nom de plume for Frank Fox) called "Commonwealth in Crisis" which was first serialised in the "Lone Hand" magazine which was largely funded by the Commonwealth Government via Alfred Deakin. The story was about a Japanese invasion of the Northern Territory in 1912 requiring the Commonwealth to resist with a guerrilla force of irregulars trained through the rifle clubs.

So important were the rifle clubs for the defence of Australia that the Commonwealth provided the training staff, rifles and ammunition so the clubs could function. Members were drilled, wore uniforms and practised all the basic skills of soldiering as well as target shooting.

Below is the list of Rifle Clubs which existed in every town throughout Western Australia in 1910. The towns and cities are in alphabetical order. This particular date is the high point of the Rifle Club movement in Australia. With the coming of universal military training in 1912 and the Great War in 1914, the Rifle Clubs saw a decline in their importance within the Australian defence scheme.

A

Albany - Plantagent Rifle Club
Anaconda - Rifle Club
Arthur - Arthur River Rifle Club

B

Bardoe - Rifle Club
Beverly - Rifle Club
Boogardie - Rifle Club
Boulder - Rifle Club
Boyagarra - Rifle Club
Boyanup - Rifle Club
Bridgetown - Rifle Club
Broad Arrow - Borad Arrow and Paddington Rifle Club
Brookton - Rifle Club
Broome - Rifle Club
Broome Hill - Rifle Club
Bulong - Rifle Club
Bunbury - Rifle Club
Burtville - Rifle Club
Busselton - Rifle Club

C

Cardiff - Mines Rifle Club
Carnarvon - Rifle Club
Claremont - Claremont and Cottesloe Rifle Club
Collie - Collie Rifle Club
Collie - Lyall's Mill Rifle Club
Coogardie - Rifle Club
Cottesloe - Claremont and Cottesloe Rifle Club
Cranbrook - Cranbrook and Frankland Rifle Club
Cuballing - Rifle Club
Cue - Rifle Club
Cunderdin - Rifle Club

D

Darkan - Darkan Rifle Club
Darkan - West Arthur Rifle Club
Davyhurst - Rifle Club
Day Dawn - Rifle Club
Derby - Rifle Club
Dowerin - Rifle Club
Dowse's Wel - Wurgabup Rifle Club
Drakesbrook - Rifle Club

E

East Narrogin - Wandering Rifle Club
Eradu - Rifle Club
Eucla - Rifle Club

F

Fremantle - Fremantle District Rifle Club

G

Geraldton - Rifle Club
Gin Gin - Rifle Club
Gindalbie - Rifle Club
Goomalling - Rifle Club
Greenbushes - The Timber Corporation Mill Rifle Club
Greenough - Rifle Club

H

Harvey - Rifle Club

I

Ida Hill - Rifle Club

J

Jarrahdale - Rifle Club

K

Kalgoorli - Rifle Club
Kanowna - Rifle Club
Karridale - Rifle Club
Katanning - Rifle Club
Kellerberrin - Rifle Club
Kojonup - Rifle Club
Kookynie - Rifle Club

L

Lake Darlot - Rifle Club
Lancefield - Rifle Club
Laverton - Laverton District Rifle Club
Lawlers
Lawlers Rifle Club
Vivien Rifle Club
Leederville - Rifle Club
Lennonville - Rifle Club
Leonora - Gwalia Rifle Club

M

Malcolm - Rifle Club
Maninga Marley - Rifle Club
Margaret River - Rifle Club
Meekatharra - Rifle Club
Menzies - Rifle Club
Merredin - Rifle Club
Mertondale - Rifle Club
Midland Junction - Rifle Club
Moodearup - Rifle Club
Mount Barker - Rifle Club
Mount Erin - Rifle Club
Mount Ida - Rifle Club
Mount Magnet - Rifle Club
Mount Sir Samuel - Rifle Club
Mullewa - Rifle Club
Mulline - Rifle Club
Mundaring - Darling Range Rifle Club
Murrin Murrin - Rifle Club

N

Nannine - Rifle Club
Narrogin - Rifle Club
Newcastle - Rifle Club
Nookennillup - Rifle Club
Norseman - Rifle Club
Northam - Rifle Club
Northampton - Rifle Club
Nungarra - Black Range Rifle Club

O

Ora Banda - Rifle Club

P

Perth - Rifle Club
Pingelly - Rifle Club
Popanyinning - Rifle Club
Preston Valley - Rifle Club

R

Ravensthorpe - Phillips River Rifle Club
Roebourne - Rifle Club
Roelands - Rifle Club

S

South Perth - Rifle Club
Southern Cross - Rifle Club

W

Wagin - Rifle Club
Waverley - Rifle Club
Wellington Mills - Rifle Club
Wiluna - Rifle Club
Woodmilling - Rifle Club
Wooraloo - Rifle Club
Worsley - Rifle Club

Y

Yalgoo - Rifle Club
Yarloop - Rifle Club
Yorketown - Rifle Club
Yundamindera - Rifle Club

Further Reading:

WA Militia - Rifle Clubs

Australian Rifle Clubs

Citation: Western Australian Rifle Clubs 1910

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Updated: Saturday, 30 May 2009 4:38 PM EADT

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