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The Museum’s address is at Artillery Barracks, 6 Burt Street, Fremantle, Western Australia 6160.
Visiting hours for the public are between 10:00am and 1:00pm each day, on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. We are closed for Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. PLEASE NOTE: the visits take approximately two hours. The Museum will close and needs to be vacated of visitors at 3:00pm.
To view/download a site plan of the museum click here.
To view/download a gallery layout plan click here.
We may be able to accommodate a Group Tour outside normal hours of operation in special circumstances, but this would need to be arranged through our main office.
All adult visitors to the museum must have the appropriate photo ID.
There is full wheelchair access to all displays.
If you require further information, please contact the main office on 9430 2535
Onsite parking is not available for the general public however, if you have an ACROD Parking Permit, you will be allowed to park your vehicle inside on the main parade ground. All visitors on official museum business who have appropriate ID will be admitted and can park onsite.
School and group tours are by arrangement.
All tour groups from recognised organisation’s that have made a tour booking will be admitted. (These groups should use the Tour Booking Form). For organised group tours, there is ample onsite parking available for buses and coaches.
To view/download a site plan of the museum click here.
To view/download a gallery layout plan click here.
EDUCATION ACTIVITY RISK MANAGEMENT. Documentation can be viewed here
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Public Liability cover for all museum staff and visitors is provided by the Department of Defence through the Commonwealth Government provider up to an amount of $20,000,000. here
| Admissions – Private Entry: | Admissions – Group Tours Entry: |
|---|---|
| Adults | Adults |
| $15.00 | $15.00 |
| Seniors/Concessions | Seniors/Concessions |
| $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Children – ( 6-17) | Metro Students / Country Students |
| $10.00 |
$8.00 Metro students $7.00 Country students |
| Family Groups – (2+3) | |
| $35.00 | |
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The Australian Army Museum of Western Australia is located in the heritage-listed precinct of the Artillery Barracks at Burt Street in Fremantle. Built between 1910 and 1913, the historic barracks housed the permanent garrison artillerymen.
The museum, established in 1977, does not receive any government funding and relies on entry fees, fundraising events, donations/bequests and facilities hire for the day-to-day running of the museum.’
2019 Vintage Car Show
The precinct’s facilities are available for hire for regular meetings or special events. Facilities include a conference room, the Officers’ Mess, kitchen/bar and barbecue facilities, meeting rooms, large onsite parking and access to the museum’s galleries for tours. The Parade Ground provides an ideal space for concerts, displays or exhibition settings.
The Army Museum is a regional museum of the Australian Army History Unit network of museums throughout Australia and is managed by Army reservists and assisted by volunteers. It is supported by the Army Museum of Western Australia Foundation which is a not-for-profit company.
The museum has six established galleries and a static display of vehicles and other military hardware located on the parade ground and in adjacent buildings. In addition to the public displays of army memorabilia and artefacts, are a wide range of items of significance.
CONFERENCE ROOM
The Conference Room accommodates up to 100 people in airconditioned comfort. It is equipped with a lectern, speaker and wall-mounted screen for presentations via a laptop. A kitchen/bar area located at the rear of the room facilitates the serving of light refreshments.
PARADE GROUND
The Parade Ground provides ample, onsite parking for meetings and events. Due to its size, it is also an ideal location for shows or exhibitions in which large displays can showcased.
OFFICERS’ MESS
The Officers’ Mess provides an ideal setting for functions with a self-contained kitchen, including an oven, urn and food preparation area. There is also a bar area for serving beverages, along with various rooms suitable for holding meetings.
BARBECUE & OUTDOOR FACILTIES
Gas barbecues, along with outdoor tables and chairs, are available for those wishing to hold events in an outdoor settings.
Bookings & Enquiries
For more information or to make a booking, please contact the museum at info@armymuseumwa.com.au or phone [08] 9430 2535.
Next week at the museum, still some spots available on selected tours
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It's International Cat Day
Throughout the trench systems that ran along the Western Front of WWI, there were an estimated 500,000 cats. Primarily, they were there to cull the rodent population but also comforted the soldiers.
The cats also served as mascots for many of the units fighting in the trenches and could freely cross no man's land. During the famous Christmas Truce of 1914, many soldiers wished for peace and friendship between the troops of warring factions. So, they would tie messages around the collars of some free-roaming kitties, and the message would get across to the enemy fortifications.
This moving image (courtesy of the Australian War Memorial) shows a cat sitting in the opening of a sandbagged dugout. The cat, probably a regimental mascot, looks up expectantly at the approach of an unidentified soldier. The image was taken in 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey.
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Charles Welsey Brick (pictured on the left) was born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England and arrived as an assisted migrant. Before enlistment in September 1914, he was employed as an Orderly at the Old Men's Home, Claremont. He embarked on HMAT A55 Kyarra on December 14th 1914 and returned on June 4th 1919.
Charles returned to his pre-war job and lived at The Old Men's home with his wife, Lily Elizabeth, who died in 1931. They had a daughter Patricia born in 1922. Charles retired to Rolystone and died in 1954.
HMAT Kyarra (A55) was built in 1903 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The Kyarra was requisitioned and converted into a hospital ship in November 1914. In March 1915, the Kyarra was converted into a troop transport. After being released from Commonwealth control in January 1918, the Kyarra was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel near Swanage on May 26th 1918.
Formed in Western Australia in August 1914, the initial staff departed Fremantle aboard HMAT A55 Kyarra on December 4th 1914.
With 'the rush of sick' from Gallipoli, an 'eleventh-hour' effort was made to develop Lemnos as an intermediate military medical base. As part of that reorganisation, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital was moved to West Mudros, landing on August 4th.
By August 13th, it was treating 763 patients. By September/October 1915, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital occupied sixty large marquee tents and had 1,200 beds and 25 nursing sisters.
When the Peninsula was evacuated, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital was transferred to Tel-el Kebir in the Canal Zone. In August 1916, the hospital moved to Port Said, where it provided general medical services until November 19th 1916, when it moved to Mahamdrya, remaining there until it relocated again to El Arish on March 10th 1917. Its following location was Moascar, arriving there on August 27th 1917. Here it received VD patients as well as casualties and general illnesses. On June 15th 1919, 1 officer and 71 other ranks, the last of the 2nd Stationary Hospital staff in Egypt, entrained for Kantara, where they boarded SS Essex for Australia.
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At 5:30pm on 6 August 1915, the attack on Lone Pine began. Lone Pine was planned as a diversion to keep Turkish reserves from the main Allied invasion, an attempt to break out of the Anzac perimeter and capture the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
The Australians' objectives were to take and hold the Turkish line and draw Turkish reserves away from the action on the Sari Bair range.
Once the Australians reached the Ottoman line, they found timber roofs covered many of the trenches, so they fired, bombed and bayoneted from above before making their way inside the trenches.
From nightfall on 6 August to 9 August, fierce fighting occurred underground in a complex maze of Ottoman tunnels.
Australian Engineers dug a safe passage across no-man's-land so reinforcements could enter the captured positions without being exposed to enemy fire.
The Turks tried to eject the attacking force, but the Australians held on.
When the battle was over, some 2300 men were killed or wounded across six Australian battalions, and over 6000 Turks had been killed or wounded.
Seven Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest British Empire bravery decoration from the action at Lone Pine. It was the highest number ever awarded to an Australian division for one action.
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Australian troops in a captured Ottoman trench at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915
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