ANZAC Cottage

The ANZAC Cottage commemorates the landing of Australian forces at Gallipoli in April 1915.

It is Western Australia’s oldest World War One memorial and unique because it is a house. It was built on a single day the 12th February 1916.

On 15 April 1916, ANZAC Cottage was opened and the following day the property was handed over to Private John Porter and his wife Annie.

Porter was a member of the 11th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force and one of those in the landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915. He was wounded and became an invalid on the first day. Porter and his wife lived in the cottage until their deaths in the 1960s. Some of his descendants lived in the cottage until the early 1980s.

This memorial, in the front yard of ANZAC Cottage, commemorates Private John Cuthbert Porter, the first resident of the property.s.

This flag pole, in the front yard of ANZAC Cottage, commemorates Private Leslie Arthur Wilkinson who was killed at Anzac Cove in 1915. It was erected before the official opening of the cottage in April 1916.

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