The attack began at 8am on 28 October 1834.
Led by the governor of Western Australia,
Captain James Stirling, an armed party of 25 people – alongside
Stirling were the colony’s surveyor general, JS Roe; the police
superintendent, Theophilus Ellis; a leading settler, Thomas Peel; five
mounted police officers; eight soldiers of the 21st Regiment; and eight
civilians – attacked a Pindjarup Noongar encampment on the Murray River,
85km south of Perth. (Dr Chris Owen: Guardian 20 November 2019)
James Stirling is buried in Guildford near St John's Stoke Church
This Australian Dictionary of Biography entry should be updated with the facts of the massacre - and reviewed in light of present day reading of the letters and journals of the time.
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