The Pinjarra massacre, in the past called the Battle of Pinjarra, occurred on 28 October 1834 in Pinjarra, Western Australia when a group of Bindjareb Noongar people were attacked by a detachment of 25 soldiers, police, and settlers led by Governor James Stirling. According to Stirling, "about 60 or 70" of the Bindjareb people were present at the camp and John Roe, who also participated, estimated about 70–80. This roughly agrees with an estimate of 70 by an unidentified eyewitness.
Of the attackers, Captain Theophilus Tighe Ellis died and Corporal Patrick Heffron was injured. Of the attacked, an uncertain number of Bindjareb men, women, and children were killed. Stirling quantified the number of Bindjareb people killed as probably 15 males; Roe estimated the number killed as between 15 and 20. An unidentified settler eyewitness counted about 25–30 dead, including a woman and several children, but also suggested it was "very probable that more men were killed in the river and floated down with the stream". The number of Bindjareb people injured remains uncertain, as do the number of deaths resulting from injuries sustained during the attack.
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