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On 26 November 2010, a member of the Rebels and two members of the rival Rock Machine were charged over a fight that occurred near the Royal Fremantle Golf Club in East Fremantle. A senior member of Rebels, who was allegedly attacked with a big torch and pepper spray by the Rock Machine, was later acquitted after his actions were proven to be ...
[3] [4] Allied submarines operating from Fremantle played a key role in the offensive against Japanese shipping; over the course of the war, 154 submarines made 341 combat patrols from the port. [5] The Australian Government and local civilians regarded the geographically isolated Perth–Fremantle area as being vulnerable to attack.
Mills was chairman of the board of Fremantle Public Hospital, a Past Master of the Masonic fraternity, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Western Australian Chamber of Manufactures, the Fremantle Golf Club, the Commercial Travellers' Association, the East Fremantle Rifle Club, and also the East Fremantle Bowling Club, where he was the ...
There were two sons and five daughters. His son Major John Humble was officer-in-charge of the Fremantle Rifle Volunteers, and his grandson Captain Forrest Hopetown Bland Humble was Harbour Master of Fremantle Harbour in 1953. [7] He was a Mason. [8] He died on 23 October 1930. [1]
A survey of New South Wales' military forces on 31 December 1900, the day before Federation, found that the active forces consisted of 505 officers and 8,833 other ranks, 26 nurses, and 1906 civilian rifle club members. In addition to these forces, there was an inactive reserve of 130 officers and 1,908 other ranks. [69]
Irwin Barracks is an Australian Army military base located in Karrakatta, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It occupies a 62-hectare (150-acre) site on the western side of the Fremantle railway line. [1] It was previously known as Karrakatta Camp and Irwin Training Centre.
Beaconsfield is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Fremantle.It was named after a property of the same name in the area in the 1880s; the name was officially adopted from the post office on 1 August 1894.
Joseph Denis Nunan (some say Noonan) (February 1842 – 18 May 1885) was an Irish born patriot and builder transported to Fremantle for wounding a policeman. He became an architect and building contractor involved in significant buildings in Perth, Fremantle and York. He never gave up his Fenian beliefs and died before he could return to Ireland.