BLACKBOY HILL, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

'Blackboy Hill, Western Australia'
Is the name of the an ANZAC memorial and the locality now absorbed into Greenmount, Western Australia.

Contents

Anzac Day

Military Camp

Quarantine Station

Railway Station

Reference

Anzac Day

The main annual event at the site are the Anzac Day commemorations.
The sunset service and the dawn service - as well as an all-night vigil - are maintained by the Bilgoman District of the Scout Association of Western Australia - and the RSL

Military Camp

The reason for the memorial was the military camp within this location which had large numbers of troops who left to serve at Gallipoli and other locations in the First World War.
During the First World War troops were transported to the adjacent Helena Vale Railway station and marched across to the camp, so as to not interfere with the working of the Eastern Railway. The camp and its adjacent structures were on the hill that is now utilised by the St Anthony's Primary School and Church, and Greenmount Primary School.
The Anzac memorial is on a segment of ground that is between the two primary schools. It is maintained by the Mundaring Council, and has a committee that oversees management of the site.
Most of the original site is now covered by housing development, but up until this began in the early 1990s, remnants of the army camp and many associated rubbish pits were visible.

Quarantine Station

At the end of WW1, around April, 1919, the Imperial forces camp was turned over to the Health department to act as a fever hospital, treating Spanish Flu.

Railway Station

Also 'Blackboy Hill' was a named railway stopping place between Bellevue and Swan View between the 1940s and 1960s. It did not exist during the first world war as a stopping place for troop movements.

Reference

★ De Burgh, H. C. ''Blackboy Hill commemoration site, Perth, Western Australia'' Perth, W.A. H.C. de Burgh, 1983.