Biography

Informant F McGowan, mailman, Halls Creek. Buried at the Argyle Police Station located on the Ord River-Wyndham road at Wild Dog Spring near the Northern Territory border. Witnesses present at the burial were John Bates and Police Constable Joseph Henry Hill (Regimental No.517). Author's Note: Argyle Police Station and Wild Dog Police Camp/Station are one and the same. "Mucking About" by Paul Hasluck p.238 states "At Wild Dog Gorge on the Mistake Creek side of Sugar Springs, there lie near each other, marking a grim jest, the last beds of men named Day and Knight." Walter Wilson was buried there in 1898, George Knight (at Argyle Station) in 1904, Hugh McKenna in 1905 and John Day in 1908. An old stockman told that 2 rather large mounds were at this police station near the mill and tank at Wild Dog Spring in the 1950's; also said to be the graves of Day and Knight. Could there have been more than 2 graves?