Police
Goldfields Police
The police culture in 1854 was that of an armed paramilitary gendarnmerie. troopers and police were garrisoned in centralised posts, such as the Ballarat Government Camp., and not premitted to fraternise with civilians.[1]
130 military pensioners resident in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) were hired by the Victorian Government.[2]
By January 1853 there were 230 mounted police in the Victorian Colony. By 1845 it had risen to 485, including nine mounted detectives. [3]
Ballarat Police
The first police camp was established at Golden Point, moving to the Camp Street location in mid-1852.
After the Eureka Stockade battle an eyewitness, Alfred Madocks, wrote of the police:
- That hated body of men, the troopers, committed acts of most wanton barbarity, murdering inoffensive people. (They had had none of the fighting being kept as a reserve). As an instance – one man living a long way from the scene and in bed with his wife was dragged from her arms and murdered in his tent, which they afterwards fired. They thus at one blow deprived her of her husband and everything she was possessed of. Some of these Gentlemen have since been picked off – they are all spotted and vengeance is not wanting.[4]
Uniforms
Soft peaked cap.
Gold Escort
Troopers
John Badcock, Charles Carter, Hussey Chomley, Michael Costelloe, John Culkin, Robert Evans, John Gillman, Henry Foster, Samuel Furnell, William Kelly, John King, Ladislaus Kossak, James Langley, Michael Lawler, Thomas Milne, Robert Milne, Constable Nugent, Andrew Peters, John Sadlier, William Thompson, Edward Viret, Maurice Ximenes
References
- ↑ Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart,Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.75.
- ↑ Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart,Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.75.
- ↑ Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart,Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.75.
- ↑ Anthony Fyson, Eyewitness at Eureka IN History Today Volume: 54 Issue: 12 2004.
