| Site Name | Ivanhoe Station (2) East Kimberley |
| Aboriginal Place Name | |
| Language Group | Mirrawong Gadgerong |
| Present State/Territory | WA |
| Colony/State/Territory at the time | WA |
| Police District | Wyndham - East Kimberley |
| Latitude | -16.662 |
| Longitude | 128.683 |
| Date | 27 Dec 1895 |
| Attack Time | Day |
| Victims | Aboriginal People |
| Victim Descriptions | |
| Victims Killed | 20 |
| Victims Killed Notes | 20-40 |
| Attackers | Colonists |
| Attacker Descriptions | Police |
| Attackers Killed | 0 |
| Attackers Killed Notes | |
| Transport | Horse |
| Motive | Reprisal |
| Weapons Used | Rifle(s) |
| Narrative | Police reports document an East Kimberley police patrol from 22 November 1895 until 24 December 1895 that included Sergeant Wheatley, PC Rhatigan, four native assistants (Mickey, Willy, Joe and Bubby). A telegram from Inspector Orme to the commissioner of police indicates the patrol shot the entire group of Aboriginal people they came across: ‘Returned today[,] met police party about eighty miles from here[,] they have had most successful trip. [T]ribe recently killing at Durack Bros Ivanhoe Stud Station thoroughly dispersed not one escaping. Durack Bros reports no killing on Argyle Downs station[.] Sergt Wheatley met Halls Creek police party at Lissadell station where both parties dispersed several tribes.’ Estimated 20-40 killed (SROWA, AN 24, Cons.527, File 823/1895All CSO). |
| Sources | CSO, ‘Telegram from Sub Inspector Orme to Commissioner of Police GB Phillips’, Wyndham Station, 15 December 1895, SROWA, AN 24, Cons.527, File 823/1895. See also Telegram dated 27 December 1895. Const. Inglis and party ‘dispersed several tribes on Lissadell and Ord River Stations’, CSO, AN 24, Cons.527, File 823/1895. Owen, 2003, pp 360-364. (Sources PDF) |
| Corroboration Rating | *** |
