Topic: Militia - LHW - WA
Western Australian Militia
Goldfields Battalion of Infantry
The following is an extract from the book written in 1962 by George F. Wieck called The Volunteer Movement in Western Australia 1861-1903, pp. 61 - 62:
Goldfields Battalion of Infantry
The men who flocked to the W.A. Goldfields in the "nineties" were endowed with an adventurous spirit so the wave of military fervour brought about by the war in South Africa naturally had an effect. A proposal to form Volunteer Infantry corps in the area was approved and the Gazette of 7 June 1900 gave authority to form the "Goldfields Battalion of Infantry", with Headquarters at Kalgoorlie and Companies at Coolgardie, Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Kanowna, and Menzies-and a little later at Broad Arrow.
Progress was so rapid that by the middle of September of that year the numbers of men passed in each centre as trained soldiers were Coolgardie 14, Kalgoorlie 60, Boulder 65, Kanowna 42, and Broad Arrow 25, a total of 254.
When the W.A. Infantry Brigade was formed on 3 September 1900, the Goldfields corps became the 5th Battalion of the Brigade, under the Command of Captain H. A. Judd. See: 5th Battalion, W.A. Infantry Brigade.
Officers of the Goldfields Battalion of InfantryCaptain J Finnerty, 17 January 1900
Captain HM Downes, 17 January 1900
Lieutenant Colonel HA Judd, 17 January 1900
Captain WL Owen, 17 January 1900
Captain ET Randall, 17 January 1900
Second Lieutenant JL Ochiltree, 17 January 1900
Second Lieutenant WJ Colter, 17 January 1900
Second Lieutenant HCF Scott, 17 January 1900
Second Lieutenant CRC Stewart, 17 January 1900
Captain JL Johnson, 17 January 1900
Second Lieutenant L Munn, 17 January 1900
Lieutenant FB Timperley, 1 July 1900
Captain WH Moulton, 4 September 1900
Lieutenant EP Downley, 4 September 1900
Second Lieutenant HH Bawden, 4 September 1900
Captain SR Roberts, 4 September 1900
Second Lieutenant JP Stuart, 29 October 1900
Second Lieutenant FJ West, 10 November 1900
Second Lieutenant C Griffith, 10 November 1900
Captain T Elliott, 15 January 1900
Second Lieutenant JN Hankin, 15 January 1900
Second Lieutenant S Elliott, 15 January 1900
Second Lieutenant AP Walsh, 1 July 1900
Lieutenant GA Morris, 20 August 1900
Second Lieutenant EY Butler, 20 August 1900
Second Lieutenant A Bastow, 20 August 1900
Lieutenant TC Wilson, 7 June 1901
Second Lieutenant GP Stuart, 11 March 1902
Second Lieutenant GB Wilson, 11 March 1902
Second Lieutenant TH Graham, 1 January 1903
Second Lieutenant CJ Long, 1 January 1903
Second Lieutenant VHR Murray, 1 January 1903
Second Lieutenant HR Rule, 1 January 1903
Second Lieutenant C Fisher, 1 May 1903
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Further Reading:
Western Australian Militia, Light Horse
Western Australian Militia, Infantry
Citation: The Volunteer Movement in Western Australia, Goldfields Battalion of Infantry
Posted by Project Leader
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Updated: Friday, 4 September 2009 8:00 PM EADT
