Northam Army Camp Heritage Association Inc.

View of the corrugated-iron buildings at Northam Army Camp. Building H8 at Northam Army Camp. View of a group of corrugated-iron buildings at Northam Army Camp. The sentry box at the entrance to Northam Army Camp.

Resources / Further Reading

Find all the references, additional websites and reading material relating to each of the camp's storylines in one place.

General

  • Northam Army Camp, Heritage Council of Western Australia
  • Northam Army Camp, Australian Heritage Database
  • National Archives of Australia
  • Donald S. Garden, Northam: An Avon Valley History, Northam Shire Council & Hesperian Press, Perth, WA, 1992
  • Jenny Gregory & Jan Gothard (eds), Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, UWA Press, Nedlands, WA, 2009
  • W. M. McArthur & J. K. Marshall, 'Department of Defence Northam Army Camp and [Rifle] Range [map]: landforms and soils, WA', 1993, in 'Environmental and impact assessment for Northam Army Camp and Range', CSIRO Consultancy Report 93/13 (located at State Library of Western Australia).
  • Environmental Resources Management, ‘Northam Army Camp Heritage Management Plan’, unpublished report prepared for the Department of Defence, 2006
  • Lindsay J Peet, ‘Northam Army Camp and Rifle Range: review and gap analysis of existing information,’ unpublished report prepared for the Department of Defence (via Environmental Resource Management, Perth), Dalkeith, WA, November 2001
  • Stories from the Northam Army Camp, NACHA, Judy Durey/Murdoch University, WA, 2007

Military

POW

  • Northam POW Camp, Peter Dunn’s Australia @ War
  • Northam Prisoners of War Camp digital record held at the National Archives of Australia
  • Michal Bosworth, 'Internment', in Jenny Gregory (ed), On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II, UWA Press, Nedlands, WA, 1996.
  • Bill Bunbury, Rabbits and Spaghetti: Captives and Comrades - Australians, Italians and the War 1939-1945, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, WA, 1995.
  • Ernest Polis, ‘Study and Survey of POW Facilities in Western Australia’, unpublished report prepared for the National Estates Grants Program, 1996.
  • Alan Fitzgerald, The Italian farming soldiers: prisoners of war in Australia 1941-1947, Melbourne University Press, Victoria, 1981.

Migrant

  • The Bonegilla Migrant Experience
  • So Much Sky: Bonegilla Reception & Training Centre 1947 – 1971 (an online exhibition)
  • Jenny Gregory (ed), On the Homefront: Western Australia and World War II, UWA Press, Nedlands, WA, 1996.
  • Nonja Peters, Milk and Honey – But No Gold: Post War Migration to Western Australia 1945 – 1965, UWA Press, Nedlands, WA, 2001.
  • Donald S. Garden, Northam: An Avon Valley History, Northam Shire Council & Hesperian Press, Perth, WA, 1992
  • Maud Thomas, "Y" women of Perth: a history of the Young Women's Christian Association in Perth, Western Australia from 1920-1984, Young Women's Christian Association of Perth Inc., Perth, WA, 1985