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City of Fremantle Memorials, Plaques, Sculptures, and Statues
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Title Dedication date Type Current Location Creator Commissioned by Notes
150th Anniversary of the First Methodist Service in WA
10 February 1980 Plaque Mrs Trivett Place, Round House Precinct, Fremantle,
Plaque commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first Methodist service held in WA.
Aboriginal Servicemen and Women
1 July 2001 Plaque
Fremantle War Memorial, Monument Hill, Fremantle
In memory of the Aboriginal service men and women who served in conflict.
A.C.C. Hammond 23 March 1902 Brass plaque St. John’s Anglican Church, Kings Square, Fremantle
Dedicated to the life of A.C.C. Hammond who was killed in the Boer War in 1902.
AE2 Submarine 5 June 2009 Plaque WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle
Dedicated to the RAN submarine AE2 that left from Fremantle during WWI; it was the only RAN vessel lost to enemy action during the war.
Alex McMillan 2005 Bronze Sculpture Christian Brothers' College, 51 Ellen Street, Fremantle
Greg and David James
Christian Brothers' College students
Tribute to the memory of pupil, Alex McMillan, who died of a heart attack in 2001.
Antonino Carrello 2001 Coffee flask and plaque
South Beach Kiosk
Sam Paino
Original coffee flask belonging to Carrello, who frequented the kiosk and passed in
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2001. Plaque was added by Paino.
Arctic Convoys Plaque
Fremantle War Memorial, Monument Hill, Fremantle
Commemorates those who lost their lives in the Arctic Convoys of WWII.
Artworks at South Beach Development
Various sculptures South Beach, Fremantle
Anne Neil and Steve Tapper
Beaconsfield Primary School Remembrance Mural
11 November 2015 Mural with bronze poppies
Beaconsfield Primary School, Hale Street, Beaconsfield
Beaconsfield Primary School
ANZAC Centenary Grants Program
Commemorates lives lost in WWI and the centenary of ANZAC.
Bon Scott 28.10.2008 Bronze statue Fisherman’s Wharf, Fremantle
Greg James AC/DC Fan Club Ronald Belford ‘Bon’ Scott, 1946 – 1980 (Musician)
British East Indies Fleet
Plaque
Fremantle War Memorial, Monument Hill, Fremantle
Dedicated to those who served with the fleet during WWII.
British Pacific Fleet Plaque
Fremantle War Memorial, Monument Hill, Fremantle
Dedicated to those who served with the fleet during WWII.
Buried Seamen Honour Roll 76 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle
Mission to Seafarers
Lists the names of seamen who were buried in Fremantle.
Captain Charles Fremantle
June 1981 Statue and plaque; reinforced concrete coated in Bronze
WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle
Statue by Roderick Browton. Plaque by City of Fremantle
Due to continued vandalism, the bust was removed from Esplanade Reserve, 1990-1991
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Captain Charles Fremantle
2003 Statue Stirling Highway, North Fremantle
Roderick Browton
Charles Howe Fremantle, 1800 - 1869
Centenary of the Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service
2014 Stone monument with plaque
WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle
Commemorates the Centenary of the Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service from 1914 to 2014.
Centenary of Rugby League
2008 Plaque
Fremantle Rugby League Club, Shepherd and Jeffrey Streets, Hilton
Fremantle Rugby League Club
Fremantle was one of the earliest clubs in Australia.
C.Y. O’Connor 23 June 1911 Bronze Statue 1 Cliff Street, Fremantle
Pietro Porcelli
Charles Yelverton O’Connor, 1843 – 1902
C.Y. O’Connor Horse and Rider
1999 Bronze Statue C.Y. O’Connor Beach, North Coogee
Tony Jones Department of Commerce and Trade
Marks the site of O’Connor’s death.
Clear the Course 17 October 1997 7 pieces of cast iron Robb Jetty Beach, North Coogee
Anne Neil (artist) Department of Commerce and Trade
Commemorates WA’s first horse race held on the beach in 1833.
Coast Guard 2010 Mews Road, Fremantle
Greg James Signature piece of the ‘Pawn Project’
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Eastern Gates Lookout
8 June 2005 Limestone seat, 12 bronze plaques
East Street, Fremantle
Wendy Markmann (researcher)
P&C Association
A memorial to the history of the area, especially the Skinner Street Cemetery which stood on the site.
East Fremantle Municipality Roll of Honour
Marble panel, honour roll
Town of East Fremantle, 135 Canning Highway, East Fremantle
East Fremantle Municipality
Dedicated to the East Fremantle residents who served in WWI
Evan Morris Davies 2009 (current
location) Bronze plaque
Fremantle City Library, Kings Square, Fremantle
City of Fremantle
Evan Morris Davies, 1892 – 1963 (MLC, FCC) Up to 1974, situated 13 South Terrace, then moved to current location.
Fremantle’s 849 25 April 2015 12 bronze plaques
Fremantle War Memorial, Monument Hill, Fremantle
City of Fremantle
Plaques carry the names of the 849 Fremantle-based servicemen who died during WWI. Unveiled at the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign.
Fremantle – Capo D`Orlando Sister Cities
2011 Honorary tree 65 Marine Terrace, Fremantle
Fremantle Italian Club, Fremantle City Council
To commemorate the Sister City relationship between Fremantle and Capo D’Orlando, Italy. Plaque was
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added 21 October 2012.
Fremantle – Funchal Sister Cities
2011 Honorary tree Phillimore Gardens, Fremantle
City of Fremantle
To commemorate the Sister City relationship between Fremantle and Funchal, Portugal. Plaque added 22 August 2012.
Fremantle – Molfetta Sister Cities
2012 Honorary tree 65 Marine Terrace, Fremantle
Fremantle Italian Club, Fremantle City Council
To commemorate the Sister City relationship between Fremantle and Molfetta, Italy. Plaque was added 8 February 2013.
Fremantle – Serabang Perai Sister Cities
2011 Honorary tree Thompson Road, North Fremantle
City of Fremantle
To commemorate the Sister City relationship between Fremantle and Serbang Perai, Malaysia. Plaque was added 18 July 2012.
Fremantle Fallen Sailors and Soldiers Memorial
11 November 1928 Limestone obelisk and smaller monuments
Fremantle War Memorial, Monument Hill, Fremantle
J. F. Allen and C. H. Nicholas (designers), constructed by Pietro Porcelli
By public subscription, Fremantle Town Council
Originally commemorated only those who served in WWI, now commemorates all Australian servicemen and women who served in all wars and conflicts.
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Fremantle Sailing Club Memorial Wall
11 November 2008 Honour roll 151 Marine Terrace, Fremantle
Fremantle Sailing Club
Commemorates members who died, or were buried, at sea.
Fremantle Sporting Wall of Fame
Honour roll
Town Hall Administration Centre, Kings Square, Fremantle
To honour, recognise and promote Fremantle`s sporting heritage
Hector MacDonald 1907 Donnybrook Stone Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle
J. McNeece Fremantle City Council
In memory of ‘Fighting Mac’, Major General Sir Hector MacDonald who died by his own hand on 25/3/1903.
HMAS Perth 2010 Honour roll
Navy League Headquarters, Riverside Drive, East Fremantle
HMAS Perth survivors and The Navy League of Australia (WA Division)
Erected to perpetuate the memory of those gallant sailors who gave their lives when the Australian Light Cruiser HMAS Perth was sunk on the 28th of February, 1942.
HMAS Westralia 22 November 2004 Plaque Monument Hill, Fremantle
Dedicated to the memory of the sailors who died in a fire on the HMAS Westralia in 1998.
Hector MacDonald 1907 Stone obelisk and drinking fountain
Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle
Fremantle Caledonian Society
Major General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, 1853 – 1903
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Hughie Idwal Edwards
26 November 2002 Bronze Statue Kings Square, Fremantle
Andrew Kay
Artwork funded by private donors with support from the WA Lotteries Commission, Department of Veterans Affairs and the City of Fremantle.
Air Commodore Sir Hugh Idwal ‘Hughie’ Edwards, 1914 – 1982
Injudinah Massacre 9 April 1994 Bronze plaque
Maitland Brown Memorial, Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle
Fremantle Aboriginal Baldja Network
Dedicated to the Aboriginal perspective of the events known as the Injudinah or La Grange Massacre.
Jens Braendgaard c2004 Bronze plaque 76 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle
Wendy Shaw Marmann and Father Dennis Claughton
Jens Brendgaard was a 17 year old seaman who was murdered in Fremantle in 1963.
Joan Campbell MBE 18 August 2013 Bronze sculptural project
Kidogo Arthouse, Bathers Beach, Fremantle
Catriona Gregg (designer)
Joan Campbell, 1925 – 1997 (artist)
John Curtin 14 August 2005 Bronze Statue Kings Square, Fremantle
Joan Walsh-Smith and Charles Smith
Department of Housing and Works Project
John Curtin MP, 1885 – 1945 : Prime Minister of Australia 1941-1945, Member for Fremantle 1928-1931, 1934-1945.
John Forrest 22 August 1947 5ft. Granite Stone with spherical beacon
Beach Street, Fremantle
Municipalities of the Fremantle District.
Sir John Forrest, 1847 – 1918 ; Monument commemorates the centenary of his birth. Originally situated at
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southern end of Fremantle Traffic Bridge. Moved to Beach Street in 1964.
John Gerovich 5 June 2006 Bronze Statue Fremantle Oval Robert Hitchcock
Statue portrays Gerovich’s famous mark over Ray French at the 1956 preliminary WAFL final.
Leighton Redevelopment
2006 14 Steel Prongs Near North Fremantle train station
Steve Tepper
To commemorate the site’s former use as the old Leighton marshalling yards.
Locke Park 25 November 1979 Plaque Locke Park, East Fremantle
Town of East Fremantle
Plaque commemorates the restoration of Locke Park and forms part of the East Fremantle Heritage Trail.
Memorial Rose Garden
25 August 1995 Garden, granite memorial, bronze plaque, flag pole
Preston Point Road, East Fremantle
Town of East Fremantle
Dedicated to those who served in WWII.
Maitland Brown Memorial (Explorers Monument)
8 February 1913 Bronze Statue and plaque
Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle
Pietro Porcelli G.J. Brockman
The statue and plaque were dedicated to the memory of the explorers killed at La Grange. Also see Injudinah Massacre plaque.
Merchant Mariners Memorial
27 August 1995 Stone monument with plaques
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Dedicated to the Merchant Mariners
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who lost their lives in war.
Migrant Children Memorial
10 December 2004 Bronze statue and plaque
WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle
Joan Walsh-Smith and Charles Smith
Department of Community Development W. A.
Commemorates migrant children who came to Australia.
Monument Hill Memorial Reserve Gates
25 April 1963 Granite entrance pillars, bronze panels
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Claude H. Nicholas (designer)
City of Fremantle
Dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Womens’ Auxiliary Services in WWI and WWII.
Netherlands Ex-Servicemen`s Association of Australia Monument
1991 Stone monument with bronze plaques
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Netherlands Ex-Servicemen`s Association of Australia
Commemorates Dutch servicemen and women who lost their lives in WWII.
Nicolas Baudin 5 July 2001 Bronze bust WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle
Terra Australis 2001 WA Association Inc, French government
Nicholas Baudin, 1754 – 1803 (explorer and botanist)
North Fremantle War Memorial
26 August 1923
Granite pillar and base, marble statue, obelisk, cast iron railing
War Memorial Park, Queen Victoria Street & Harvest Road, North Fremantle
G.C. Smith & Co North Fremantle Municipality
Commemorates North Fremantle persons who died in WWI
Old Jetty Bathers Beach, Fremantle
Joan Campbell By public subscription
On the location where the old Fremantle jetty once stood before the harbour was built.
Pietro Giacomo Porcelli
3 March 1993 Bronze Statue Kings Square, Fremantle
Greg James City of Fremantle Pietro Giacomo Porcelli, 1872 – 1943 (Sculptor)
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Pioneer Memorial Stained-glass window
St. John’s Church, Kings Square, Fremantle
To recognise the early settlers of the Swan River Colony, in particular the Duffield and Humble families.
Planners' Plaque 1988 Circular bronze plaque
Kings Square, Fremantle (in front of the Town Hall)
Peter Daily City of Fremantle Commemorates 150 years of city planning in Fremantle. Plaque
Proclamation Tree 21 October 1890
and 1930 Fig tree and bronze Plaque
Adelaide & Parry Streets, Fremantle
Phillip Webster (planter)
Plaque donated by students of Fremantle Boys School
Tree planted to commemorate the granting of responsible government to WA. Plaque added in 1930.
Rainbow August 2016 Nine sea containers Beach Reserve, adjacent to Canning Highway
Marcus Canning City of Fremantle (AUD145,000)
Symbolic of the history and character of Fremantle.
Robert Spence Wooden plaque 76 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle
To commemorate Spence, and his shipmates, lost on AHS Centaur in 1943.
Royal Australian Navy Corvettes Memorial
7 October 1984 Stone monument with plaque
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Royal Australian Navy
Dedicated to those who died serving in Corvettes during WWII.
Royal Australian Navy in Vietnam Memorial
30 November 2002 Sandstone and grey granite block with plaque
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Royal Australian Navy
Dedicated to the RAN’s role in the Vietnam War between 1962 and 1975.
Royal Marines Memorial
3 November 1998 Stone monument with plaque
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Dedicated to the Royal Marines that served, and those that
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died, in WWII.
Royal Navy Memorial
23 October 1994 Stone monument with plaque
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Commemorates those who served in Australia’s defence during WWII.
Sesquicentennial Year
2 May, 1979 Bronze Plaque Rous Head, North Fremantle
City of Fremantle
Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the landing by Captain Charles How Fremantle.
Shipwreck Memorial
1900 Marble and stone base, stone cross
Fremantle Cemetery, Carrington Street, Fremantle
Oldham & Eales (architects), Messrs Wilson and Gray (builders)
By public subscription
Dedicated to those who died in the Carlisle Castle and City of York shipwrecks in the same storm in 1899.
Southern Crossing 16 April 2002 Bronze Statue E shed, Victoria Quay, Fremantle
Tony Jones and Ben Jones
City of Fremantle, Fremantle Ports, Artists Foundation of Western Australia
Commemorates 105 years of Fremantle Port history.
St. John’s Baptistery 7 September 1947 Baptistery with plaque
St. John’s Church, Kings Square, Fremantle
St. John’s Anglican Parish
Dedicated as a memorial to those who died in WWII.
St. John’s Memorial Choir Vestry
1 October 1922 Marble plaque St. John’s Church, Kings Square, Fremantle
Messrs Eales and Cohen (designers)
Commemorates those in the choir who died in WWI.
St. John's Church 1987 Plaque Kings Square
Plaque acknowledges the co-operation of the Church and commemorates the
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Centenary of the opening of the Fremantle Town Hall on 22 June, 1887.
St Paul`s Anglican Church Honour Board
Honour roll
St Paul`s Anglican Church, 162 Hampton Road, Beaconsfield
Honours parishioners who served in WWI.
Proclamation Plaque
17 June 1980 Bronze plaque Rous Head, North Fremantle
City of Fremantle
Plaque inscribed with the James Stirling’s proclamation that officially established WA as a British settlement.
Submarine Periscope Memorial
21 October 1972 Periscope and plaques
Monument Hill, Fremantle
Royal Navy Submariners Association - Australia Branch
Dedicated to Allied submariners based in Fremantle during WWII.
Sumpton Green 21 April 1998 Informative sign 51 Moss Street, East Fremantle
East Fremantle Town Council, with funding from Lotterywest
Details the history of the Sumpton Green building and the site on which it stands.
Sunbaker Bronze statue Bathers Beach, Fremantle
Greg James
Taylor Memorial Drinking Fountain and Horse Trough
1905 Glazed stoneware Market Street & Elder Place
Doulton and Company, London
John Taylor
Constructed in memory of John Taylor’s sons Ernest Baines and Peter Southern. The fountain was restored in the early 1980s.
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Tom Edwards 7 December 1919 Rustic granite with marble plaque
Kings Square, Fremantle
Pietro Porcelli Fremantle Lumpers Union
Edwards was killed on Bloody Sunday in 1919; he became a martyr for the unions. 1919 – 1968 located outside Trades Hall, Collie St; April 1968 – 1982 stored at Waterside Workers Federation office, High street; 4 May 1982 relocated to Kings Square.
To the Fishermen – the Jetty
29 October 2004 Bronze Statues Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle
Greg James and John Tarry
Fremantle’s fishing community
Commemorates WA’s early fishermen. With funding from public subscription, the Fishermen’s Monument Trust, Portuguese Government, and City of Fremantle,
United States Submariners Memorial
16 September 1967 Monument Hill, Fremantle
City of Fremantle
Dedicated to US Submariners based in Fremantle during WWII.
Vasco da Gama 28 June 1997 Bronze sculpture Esplanade Reserve, Fremantle
John Kirkner (designer), Edgar Naylor (ceramist), Clare Bailey (sculptor)
Portuguese government, City of Fremantle
Vasco da Gama, 1469 – 1525 (explorer)
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Venus and Friends November 2002
Painted steel and bronze sculpture (one of eight piece artwork)
O’Connor Landing Victoria Quay, Fremantle
Judith Forrest Fremantle Ports
Series includes: Quokka goes for an eagle, Leda and the swan, At the bottom of the harbour, A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, Free ride, and Safe for sun and sea.
Welcome Walls 19 December 2004 Structure WA Maritime Museum, Fremantle
Cox Howlett and Bailey Woodland Architects and Perkins Builders
WA government
Built to commemorate the contribution migrants made to WA; unveiled as part of the 175th anniversary of the state.
William Marmion 9 January 1902 Celtic cross carved in stone
Adelaide & Parry Streets, Fremantle
Pietro Porcelli By public subscription
William Edward Marmion, 1845 – 1896 (prominent Fremantle citizen)
Writers Walk 2005 2.4m totems High Street, Fremantle
Bridget Norton
Recognises past and present local authors Tim Winton, Joan London, John Boyle O'Reilly, Xavier Herbert, and Kim Scott.
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Resources - All items available at the Fremantle City Library History Centre
Miscellany File 731.7 Memorials, plaques, sculptures, statues
Monument Australia, http://monumentaustralia.org.au/, 2016, accessed August 2016