Sir John Patrick (Jack) Dwyer KCMG (24 June 1879 – 25 August 1966) was a native of Aberfeldy, Victoria who became Chief Justice and Lieutenant Governor of the State of Western Australia from 1945 to 1959.
[2] Dwyer was called to the Victorian Bar in 1902[3] but relocated to Western Australia in 1904 following an offer of employment with Fremantle barrister (and MP) Matthew Moss.
During World War II, Dwyer enlisted with the Australian Imperial Forces on 30 May 1916 shortly after the ANZAC withdrawal from Gallipoli, and was commissioned as a lieutenant a year later.
Arriving in France four months before Armistice Day, Dwyer served with the 44th Battalion during the closing stages of the German counteroffensive and in the immediate aftermath of the war itself.
[6] Many of his personal papers and photographs were donated to the Old Court House Law Museumn in Perth by Caroline ELizabeth Pummer, a journalist and Dwyer's wife's niece.