Hector Neil McLarty

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Hector Neil McLarty

Hector Neil McLarty (15 March 1851 - 24 November 1912) was a Western Australian Police officer, and customs detective. During his service as a police officer he accompanied future Premier John Forrest

John Forrest

Sir John Forrest Order of St Michael and St George was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament....
on two expeditions and was in charge of the officers attempting to capture the Fenian

Fenian

The Fenians, both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, were fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the nineteenth and early twentieth century....
escapees on the Catalpa

Catalpa rescue

The Catalpa rescue was the escape, in 1876, of six Fenian prisoners from what was then the United Kingdom penal colony of Western Australia....
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rty married Elizabeth Campbell in March 1875, they had six children, three boys and three girls.

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John Forrest

Fenian

Catalpa rescue

The Catalpa rescue was the escape, in 1876, of six Fenian prisoners from what was then the United Kingdom penal colony of Western Australia....
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Personal life

McLarty married Elizabeth Campbell in March 1875, they had six children, three boys and three girls. The eldest Campbell McLarty was one of the pastrolists to open up the north west of Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a States and territories of Australia occupying the entire western third of the Australia . The nation's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world, it has 2.1 million inhabitants , 85% of whom live in the south-west corner of the state....
for grazier

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s. Roy McLarty received the Military Medal

Military Medal

The Military Medal was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other British Armed Forces, and formerly also to personnel of other Commonwealth of Nations countries, below commissioned officer rank, for bravery in battle on land....
at Gallipoli

Gallipoli

The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east....
and went on to become the Chief Executive for the AMP Society. His youngest son Duncan Keith was killed in action on 25 September 1915 a during the Battle of Loos

Battle of Loos

The Battle of Loos was one of the major United Kingdom offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. It marked the first time the British used Poison gas in World War I during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first large-scale use of new army or "Kitchener's Army" units....
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The youngest of his daughters Muriel Eileen McLarty was the oldest surviving McLarty to attend the National Trust of Australia

National Trust of Australia

The Australian Council of National Trusts is a community-based, non-government organisation, committed to promoting and conserving Australia's indigenous, natural and historic heritage by assisting the work of the State Trusts....
official opening of Old Blythewood homestead near Pinjarra

Pinjarra, Western Australia

Pinjarra is a town in the Peel of Western Australia along the South Western Highway, from the state capital, Perth, Western Australia and south-east of the coastal city of Mandurah, Western Australia....
by Governor Wallace Kyle

Wallace Kyle

Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Hart Kyle Order of the Bath, Royal Victorian Order, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Flying Cross , Royal Air Force was a senior Royal Air Force commander and the Governor of Western Australia of Western Australia from 1975 to 1980....
. Old Blythewood was built Hector McLarty's father John in 1851 and was given to the National Trust by the McLarty family in 1974.

Police Officer

Hector McLarty joined the Western Australian Police in June 1868 at the age of 17 years. In March 1870, as a police constable he was part of John Forrest's expedition to survey a route for the first overland telegraph. The expedition plan was to start at Esperance

Esperance, Western Australia

Esperance is a town in Western Australia, located on the south coast around half-way between Albany, Western Australia and the South Australian border; 7 hours drive and 1 hour flight from the capital, Perth, Western Australia....
tracing the route of John Eyre

John Eyre

John Eyre was an early Australia painter and engraver. A penal transportation Convictism in Australia, Eyre generally focused on urban scenes, giving his creative output value not only as works of art but also as historical records....
s previous crossing from Adelaide, South Australia to Esperance. They arrived at the Dempster farm in Esperance in April to replenish before commencing the successful expedition, returning from Adelaide by steamship in September 1870. Between August and November 1871 the same expedition party returned to Esperance explore pastoral land they had identified north north east of Esperance during the first expedition.

McLarty was promoted to Sargeant on 25 May 1874 while assigned to Perth's

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the List of Australian capital cities and largest city of the Australian States and territories of Australia of Western Australia. With a population of 1,554,769 , Perth ranks fourth amongst the nation's cities, with a growth rate consistently above the national average....
central police station. On 17 April 1876 McLarty lead a group of 8 men, 2 pensioner guards from Perth and 6 police constables from Fremantle

Fremantle, Western Australia

Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia, located southwest of Perth, Western Australia, the state capital, at the mouth of the Swan River on Australia's western coast....
in pursuit of the six Fenian prisoners that had escaped from the Fremantle Prison

Fremantle Prison

Fremantle Prison is a former List of Australian prisons located in The Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia, in Western Australia. The 60,000 m? site includes the prison, gatehouse, perimeter walls, cottages, tunnels, and prisoner art....
. They boarded the Georgette in Perth steamed out of the Swan river in search of the Catalpa, unsuccessful they returned that night to Fremantle to refuel. They recommenced the search the following day successfully finding the Catalpa, firing a shot across at the vessel the ordered it to stop or they would sink it. Captain of the Catalpa pointed at the United States flag and indicating that they were in international waters and that such action would be an act of war. The Georgette then returned to Fremantle, in his report on the incident McLarty wrote of the furstration and humiliation of letting the Catapla sail away.

In 1883 McLarty moved to Albany

Albany, Western Australia

Albany is located in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, situated around a port on the southern coast.Its metropolitan area has a population of 25,196 as of the 2006 census, making it the sixth largest city in the state....
while there here sent a telegraph to Esperance instructing Lance Corporal Truslove to intercept suspected bushranger

Bushranger

Bushrangers, or bush rangers, were outlaws in the early years of the History of Australia who had the survival skills necessary to use the Australian The Bush as a refuge to hide from the authorities....
James Cody who was accused of stealing two horses. When Truslove caught Cody he refuse to stop, Truslove then shot Cody. Taking him to Dempster property in Esperance for treatment despite the aid of a doctor giving instructions via telegraph from Albany Cody died ten days later. At the age of 33 Hector McLarty retired from the police force on 29 February 1884.

Later career

Hector McLarty moved his family to the timber town of Canning Mills

Canning Mills, Western Australia

Canning Mills is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda.It was the terminus and main destination of the Upper Darling Range Railway during the early stages of its operation until 1912 when the line was extended ...
in the Darling Scarp

Darling Scarp

The Darling Scarp is a low escarpment running north-south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia....
. There he worked for the Western Australian Government Railways

Western Australian Government Railways

Western Australian Government Railways was most common name of the Western Australian Government of Western Australia rail transport authority from 1890 to 1976....
on the Eastern Railway

Eastern Railway (Western Australia)

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, while his wife was the Postmistress

Postmaster

Postmaster refers to the head of an individual post office. When a postmaster is responsible for an entire mail distribution organization , the title of Postmaster General is commonly used....
for the town during the early 1890s. McLarty then took up a position as a detective with the Western Australian Customs on 1 July 1895. As part of the Federation of Australia

Federation of Australia

The federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate United Kingdom self-governing colony of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia formed a federation....
the WA Customs service was amalgimated with similar services in the other States to form the Australian Customs Service

Australian Customs Service

The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service is the Government of Australia agency responsible for managing the security and integrity of the Australian border, facilitating the movement of legitimate international travellers and goods, and collecting border related duties and taxes....
, Hector remained with the ACS until he retired on 30 June 1911.