Blackboy Hill, Western Australia

Is the name of the an ANZAC memorial and the locality now absorbed into Greenmount, Western Australia. The memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii commemorates American dead from wars in the Pacific. ... Greenmount, Western Australia Can refer to - Greenmount Hill, Greenmount a Locality in Mundaring, Western Australia Shire, and also to Greenmount National Park. ... Capital Perth Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Ken Michael Premier Alan Carpenter (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 15  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $100,900 (4th)  - Product per capita  $50,355/person (3rd) Population (December 2006)  - Population  2,050,900 (4th)  - Density  0. ...

Anzac Day

The main annual event at the site are the Anzac Day commemorations. ANZAC Day is commemorated by Australia and New Zealand on 25 April every year to remember members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who in the Battle of Gallipoli landed at Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. ANZAC Day is also a public holiday in the...

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 Scouting in Western Australia is a branch of Scouts Australia in the State of Western Australia, Australia. ... RSL National HQ, on Constitution Ave, Canberra, near the Australian Defence Force Russell Offices HQ The Returned and Services League of Australia (often abbreviated to RSL) is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Australian Defence Force. ...

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. Gallipoli peninsula (Turkish: ) is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

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. Helena Vale, Western Australia Was the original name for Midland Junction (now Midland) in Western Australia between 1885 and 1901. ... current line where it leaves the Swan coastal plain and follows the Avon River through the Darling Scarp to Toodyay Eastern Railway is the name given to the railway constructed east of Fremantle, Western Australia, in the 19th century. ... Greenmount could refer to: Greenmount, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth. ...

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 1990's, 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 1940's and 1960's. It did not exist during the first world war as a stopping place for troop movements. Bellevue is a small locality on the western border of the Shire of Mundaring, Western Australia, or the eastern border of the City of Swan Located at the foot of the slopes of Greenmount, a landmark on the Darling Scarp that is noted in the earliest of travel journals of... Swan View Train Station Swan View railway station, Perth was a railway station of significance on the Eastern Railway in Western Australia. ...

Reference

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