CAMP OXLEY
OXLEY, BRISBANE, QLD
DURING WW2

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Camp Oxley at Blunder Road, Oxley was located on 122 acres on half of Portion 357, County of Stanley, Parish of Yeerongpilly (or Oxley). Army Hirings Service carried out an inspection of the property on 7 August 1942. Rent was set at 10 Pounds per annum. The owner Mr. James Henry Delbridge had been using the portion required by Army Hirings for dairying purposes but he had made other arrangements for agisting his stock.

It was acquired from James Henry Delbridge by the Army Hirings Service under Regulation 54 of the National Security (General) Regulations dated 18 September 1942 for use as a camp site for the US Army's 28th Chemical Company. It was able to accommodate 270 USASOS Ordnance personnel.

 

BSH 170 AHS 1572 US 683
BLUNDER ROAD OXLEY.

Schedule of U.S.A Engineers Expenditure

1 only Mess Hall 20' X 100'
1 only Recreation Hall 20' x 100'
1 only Supply Store 20' X 100'
1 only Administrative Building 18' x 40'
1 only Supply Store 18' 40'
1 only Officers Quarters 18' X 40'
1 only Boiler House 9' x 10'
1 only Latrine 5' x 9'
1 only Latrine 11' x 40'
1 only Bath House 8' x 18'
1 only Bath House 241 x 30°

M/ R. Hornibrook's Contract                                      4355. 18. 6

Additions by Engineers.

Ramp, Oil Store etc.                                                    69.   3.10
Water Supply                                                             866. 12. 9
Hot Water                                                                  138.   2.1
Electrical                                                                    159. 11. 0
                                                                               5,589.  8. 2

 

Prepared by:

                            .......................
                              A.H. Brown

                                                               For the Engineer

                                                                                             John B. Duty
                                                                                             Captain, C.E.
                                                                                             Land & Property Officer

                                        

 

Location of Camp Oxley on Blunder Road - Darra Ordnance
 Ammunition Depot
is shown as "Dump Area" on the above plan

 

Approximate location of Camp Oxley

 

The 577th Ordnance Ammunition Company left the Kangaroo Ordnance Depot north of Townsville on 5 October 1943 and travelled to Brisbane by train, arriving there on 7 October 1943. They moved into Camp Oxley and resumed work at the Darra Ordnance Ammunition Depot.

Camp Oxley, the USASOS Camp at Blunder Road, Oxley, was inspected on 27 November 1944, as part of the process of completing a Marching Out Certificate for the camp to be vacated by USASOS and occupied by the Australian Military Forces. Only "Minor damage & depreciation through normal weathering" was found and all fire fighting appliances had been removed. Electrical wiring had been pulled away in some buildings. Buildings were removed and re-erected elsewhere. And buildings or stores that could not be used elsewhere were offered for disposal to the Commonwealth Disposals Commission.

 

REFERENCE BOOKS

"Wacol & Darra - The War Years"
by the Military Museums of the Pacific

 

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