Blackboy Hill, Military memorial in Greenmount, Western Australia, Australia

Blackboy Hill is a 0.5-hectare commemorative site on the southern edge of the former camp, beside Innamincka Road in Greenmount, Western Australia. Its Anzac memorial stands on a strip of ground between St Anthony's and Greenmount primary schools, separated from them by a 1.5-hectare public park.

The land was first used in 1914 as a training ground for soldiers heading to war, and it served the same purpose again during the Second World War. After the wars ended, the site was gradually turned into a memorial to honor those who had passed through it.

The name comes from Xanthorrhoea preissii, the grass tree known locally as blackboy, which covered the hill before the camp. Each Anzac Day the Bilgoman District of the Scout Association of Western Australia and the Returned and Services League run a dawn service, a sunset service and an all-night vigil at the memorial between the two primary schools.

The memorial is easy to walk around, and reading all the panels and monuments takes some time, so allow at least an hour. Visiting on a weekday rather than a weekend means fewer other visitors and more space to move at your own pace.

Excavations at the site turned up objects from a hospital that operated here during the 1919 flu pandemic, a chapter that most visitors do not expect to find at a military memorial. These finds show that the land was used for healing as well as for training.