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- Environmental Resources Management, ‘Northam Army Camp Heritage Management Plan’, unpublished report prepared for the Department of Defence, 2006
- Lindsay J Peet, ‘Northam Army Camp and Rifle Range: review and gap analysis of existing information,’ unpublished report prepared for the Department of Defence (via Environmental Resource Management, Perth), Dalkeith, WA, November 2001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
- World War Two Nominal Roll, Department of Veterans Affairs
- Australians at War: Second World War 19391-1945, Australian War Memorial
- Australian Military Units, Northam, Australian War Memorial
- Photographs of the building of the Northam Army Camp taken by the West Australian newspaper, State Library of Western Australia
- 10th Light Horse Regiment
- 10th Light Horse Regiment
- Captain Hugo Throssell, VC
- Stories of Western Australians’ experiences of war.
- Australian timber buildings of the second world war
- Donald S. Garden, Northam: An Avon Valley History, Northam Shire Council & Hesperian Press, Perth, WA, 1992
- Graham McKenzie-Smith, The ebb and flow of the Australian Army in Western Australia - 1941 to 1945, Australia's Forgotten Army, Vol. 1, Grimwade Publications, ACT, 1994.
- Malcolm Uren, A thousand men at war: the story of the 2/16th Battalion, A.I.F., Heinemann, London, UK, 1959.
- Les Cody, Ghosts in khaki: the history of the 2/4th Machine Gun Battalion, 8th Australian Division, A.I.F., Hesperian Press, Perth, WA, 1997.
- 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.
- Eileen (Riley) Tucker, We answered the call: AWAS of Western Australia and their mates, The Author, Cloverdale, WA, 1991.
- Vic J Isaacs. His memories recorded on Anzac Day 1998. He was a 17½ year old Aboriginal who voluntarily enlisted in the Royal Australian Special Reserve Forces (K Force) trained at Northam Army Camp about 1952 before serving as a Bren gunner in the Korean War (1950-53).
- Western Command and Camp Chronicle has many articles on military life at Northam Army Camp from during 1940-42, see especially Vols I (Nos 3,5-8), II/2 (Nos 9-19), 3 (No. 20) (located at State Library of Western Australia).
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