Assigned to his Wife is a 1911 Australian silent film from director John Gavin.

[6] The film is set in the early 1840s in England and Van Diemen's Land and concerns Jack Throsbie (John Gavin), an English soldier who is falsely accused of a crime and sentenced to Australia, where he befriends an aboriginal boy.

All his dramas have been written and dramatised by his talented wife, Agnes Gavin.

They are all acted by Austra lians, whose ability is quite up to, if not ahead of, the oversea products.

"[13] The Sydney Sun said: A proposal and a rejection of marriage; a clandestine meeting; a theft; a court-martial; a death sentence (afterwards com muted to transportation for life from Eng land to Tasmania); a two-man fight; a fight between more than two men; a fatal accident; a startling confession and a suicide, make a little list which you will admit would be extremely Interesting when pieced toge ther and portrayed by good actors.