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G.B. Trott: 
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As the previous corps' stand numbers are known 
to reach 100 only, this high number indicates that 
Private Elsegood's rifle was one of the E.P.F. 
Enfields on loan. 
The Fremantle Volunteer Rifles, raised at the 
same time as the Perth corps, were also initially 
issued with "obsolete muzzle-loading muskets . 
Their arms were also probably Pattern 1839 or 1842 
muskets "from the War Office stocks held in the 
Colony". 24 These obsolete muskets were followed 
in August 1862 with Pattern 1853 Enfields, part of 
the consignment of 200 sent from England per the 
Bride and also issued to the Metropolitan Volunteer 
Rifles. 25 The Fremantle corps arms were also 
marked according to the War Office instructions 
with "V over W A". This corps rose to a peak en¬ 
rolment of 69 members and was disbanded in 1870. 
The next two corps to be raised were mounted 
volunteers. The Pinjarrah Mounted Volunteers 
were first in 1862, under the command of Captain 
Fawcett. According to Wieck, the P.M.V. were 
initially issued with "six revolver-carbines obtained 
from the guard of a prison ship" followed by 18 
"revolver-carbines received in 1864". 26 No record 
of the loan of the prison arms was found but the 
later revolver-carbines are known to have been 
commercial Beaumont-Adams revolvers of 38 bore 
(.50 inch) marketed by Deane, Adams and Deane 
of Birmingham (see Figure 4). The non-detachable 
carbine stocks were fitted at the Royal Small Arms 
Factory at Enfield and they were then sent to 
Western Australia. 
These 18 revolvers were acquired especially for 
the P.M.V. by the Colonial government. They 
arrived in October 1864 and were sent immediately 
by "McLarty's team" down to Pinjarrah without 
first being inspected and marked. This led to an 
interesting series of letters from the Commandant 
and the Colonial Secretary. In a memo from Lt. 
Col. Bruce dated 5th October 1864 he states: 
"I have been verbally informed that the Carbine 
Revolvers applied for by His Excellency the Governor 
for the Pinjarrah Mounted Volunteers have been 
dispatched to Pinjarrah. 
They ought to have been inspected and reported on 
by a Board after landing. 
They should have been marked before issue arguably 
to War Office instructions as in the case of the Enfield 
Rifles. I recommend that steps be taken to engrave 
numbers from 1 to 18 on the several carbines with the 
initials W.A.V., for instance W.A.V. No. 1, W.A.V. No. 
2 etc. 
The engraving should be executed on the barrel, on 
the shifting breach (sic) chamber and on the stock, so 
as to guard against any of the component parts being 
changed." 27 
In the event, these instructions were not 
properly carried out. The Prison provided a convict 
engraver, "Reg. 7520, C. Reichberg",* s to do the 
work, but the specimens examined are actually 
marked "W.A.P.M.V. No." on the top of the barre; 
only (see Figure 5). It was evidently felt that as the 
butts of these arms were not detachable there was 
no danger of them "being changed", consequently 
none of them were marked with stand numbers 
(see Figure 6). 
It can be seen from the regulations already 
referred to that the Commandant was slightly m 
error in his instruction to mark the arms "W.A.V 
No. 1", as in fact "V over W A" was stipulated. 
The War Office regulations also stipulated that in 
the case of corps other than rifle (infantry) 
Figure 5 The ownership marks of the W.A. Pinjarrah 
Mounted Volunteers, 1864 — 1882. This mar 
was engraved by a convict in 1864. (Photo 
Mackaay). 
