Brisbane @ War - Military Locations in Brisbane during WWII

This PDF file contains a detailed description of many of the military locations that existed in Brisbane during WWII.

This PDF file is based on a number of Powerpoint presentations that I delivered in Brisbane over the years. 

There are 378 pages full of amazing photos of camps, buildings, airfields etc in the Brisbane area during WWII.

Some of the locations covered include:-

• GHQ, SWPA - AMP Building
• Lennons Hotel
• Base Section 3 HQs (Somerville House)
• Brisbane Stadium
• Wilson House
• Advanced Land Headquarters (Forgan Smith building at QLD University)
• AWAS LHQ Signals Camp Indooroopilly - 2 AWAS Barracks
• 24 Line of Communications Long Pocket
• Capalaba Radio Receiving Site
• Redland Bay Radio Transmitting Site
• Hemmant Radio Transmitting Site
• Rocklea Radio Transmitting & Receiving Site
• RAAF Zillmere Radio Receiving Bunker
• Central Bureau at 21 Henry Street, Ascot - the Codebreakers
• Australian Special Wireless Group Camp at Kalinga
• Camp Kalinga - 17 APSC
• Camp Tennyson - 1 APSC
• 3rd Medical Laboratory & Morgue Yeerongpilly
• Grovely Camp
• 172nd Station Hospital - St Joseph's Nudgee Junior College
• FELO HQs - Kirkston, Windsor & Camp Tasman, Indooroopilly
• 42nd General Hospital - Stuartholme and Holland Park
• 112 Australian General Hospital - Greenslopes
• 155th Station Hospital - Ekibin and Holland Park 
• US Navy Mobile Hospital No. 9 - Camp Hill
• 10th Camp Hospital Coorparoo
• 101st Convalescent Depot - Loreto Convent Coorparoo
• AA Battery HQs - Corinda
• Camp Carina
• Cavendish Motor Pool
• HQs 3 Stores Depot RAAF
• Old Mill Building Barracks
• 391st Engineers Depot - Cannon Hill
• USN Submarine Supply Depot - Windsor
• USN Officer Club - now Riverside Reception Centre
• RAN Station 9 - Pinkenba
• Minewatching Stations - Brisbane River
• Camp Milton - Milton Tennis Courts
• HMAS Moreton - behind today's QUT
• New Farm Navy Victualling Store
• Secret Intelligence Australia HQs - New Farm
• Allied Translator & Interpreter Section Camp - Indooroopilly
• Camp Chelmer
• Gaythorne POW Camp & Hospital
• Camp Enoggera
• Camp Victoria Park
• Camp Yeronga - Yeronga Park
• Gregory Terrace US Officers Camp & Club
• Eagle Farm Airfield
• Archerfield Airfield
• Gailes Emergency Landing Ground
• Petrie Airfield
• Lawnton Airfield
• Strathpine Airfield
• Beenleigh Airfield
• Runcorn Emergency Landing Ground
• Kingston A-10 and A-11 Airfields
• Loganlea Airfield
• Waterford Airfield
• GMH Allison Engine Overhaul - Albion
• Allison Engine Test Stands - Eagle Farm
• Camouflage Factory - Albion
• Camp Ascot
• Camp Doomben
• Camp Whinstanes
• Camp Seabee
• Camp Columbia
• Camp Luna Park - Cloudland
• Camp Muckley - near Archerfield Airfield
• Camp Freeman
• Camp Chermside
• Camp Strathpine
• Camp Moorooka
• Camp Perry Park
• Australian Army Leave & Transit Depot - Ekka & Moorooka
• Darra Ordnance Ammunition Depot
• Darra RAN Ammunition Dump
• Bulimba Barge Assembly Depot
• Watercraft Workshops and Park - Colmslie
• RAN Fairmile Base - Colmslie
• RAAF Flying Boat Base - Hamilton
• 8 Fighter Sector Headquarters RAAF - Ann Street, City
• Heavy Anti-aircraft gun sites Hemmant, Balmoral, Hendra etc
• Coastal Gun sites in Moreton Bay
• Ten RAN Bases in Moreton Bay
• Hedley Park Storage
• Camp Coot-tha USN Magazine & Mine Assembly Depot
• Northgate USN Stores Depot
• HQs Northern Command & HQs 5th Australian Dvision - Marist Brothers College Ashgrove
• 2/1 Australian Chemical Warfare Laboratory - St. John's Wood
• Hygiene Service Details Depot - Ashgrove
• 1 Australian Engineer Stores Depot - Rocklea
• Ordnance Depot US Army - Coopers Plains
• US Army Pictorial Service - Cintra
• US Barracks - Newstead House
• 27 AWAS Barracks - Yeronga
• 2nd Australian Women's Hospital - Rhyndarra, Yeronga
• 4 Volunteer Defence Corps - Yeronga State School
• USN Mobile Explosives Investigation Unit No. 1 - Ashby House at Fairfield used as their Mess
• Annerley Drill Hall
• Annerley ANA Instrument Shop
• Australian Red Cross Convalescent Home - Glenroma, Chelmer
• RAAF Transient Camp - Rocklea Showgrounds
• Munitions Factory - Compo Road, Rocklea
• Salisbury CCC Camp - Lillian Avenue
• 11th Australian Base Workshop - Rocklea
• Rocklea Engine Test Cells
• Commonwealth Marine Engine Works - Rocklea
• ANA, DAP & QANTAS Sites - Moorooka
• 4 Australian Ordnance Vehicle Park - near today's Garden City Shopping Centre
• Various Air Raid Shelters
• Field Survey Companies - Hamilton Town Hall
• Mobile Printing Unit for FELO - Hamilton Town Hall
• Nudgee Quartermaster Warehouses
• Counter Intelligence Corps Training School - "Palma Rosa", Hamilton
• Doctor Carver Club - for African Americans at South Brisbane 
• HQs Brisbane Fortress Command - South Brisbane
• US Army General Depot - Banyo
• Quartermaster Warehouse - Runcorn
• USN Barracks - Regatta Hotel
• USAF Military Cemetery  Ipswich
• Air Freight Receiving Depot - Fortitude Valley
• Cairncross Dock
• AACS Store - Newstead

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