- William Wauhop, Mayor of the Town of East Fremantle 1944–1961.
- December: Prince Philip, as first lieutenant of HMW Whelp, visited Fremantle.
References and Links
- Ewers, John K. 1971, The Western Gateway: A History of Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, with UWAP, rev. ed. [1st ed. 1948].
- Wikipedia's List of mayors of East Fremantle
Freotopia
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 19 August, 2015 and hosted at freotopia.org/timeline/1944.html (it was last updated on 27 September, 2015), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.