RESIDENCES & BUILDING COMMANDEERED
BY THE MILITARY IN TOOWOOMBA, QLD DURING WW2
Ascot House Accommodation US Army Officers |
Church
of England Boy's School, Toowoomba Used as HQ, 1st Australian Army |
Clifford House Accommodation for General Lavarack and General Bridgeford and staff |
Downlands
College, Toowoomba Medical Section of 117th General Hospital |
Fernside,
East Street |
Fairholme College partly occupied by military |
Glennie
Anglican Girls' School No. 1 Orthopaedic Hospital, 117th AGH |
Smithfield
Homestead Used by RAAF Officers |
Toowoomba Showgrounds |
Vacy House | Queens Park Camp | Newton Park US Navy EM Rest Camp |
Laurel Bank Park US NAVY EM Rest Camp |
Gabbinbar
Homestead 2/1st Corps Field Survey Company |
Other Camps etc
3 VAOC Control Post Toowoomba | 7 Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot Toowoomba 7 IAFD RAAF |
3 Australian
Advance Ordnance Depot Harristown No. 1 Sub Depot, Group II |
4 Australian Base Supply Depot (4 BSD) Toowoomba (possibly Carbalah) | 7 Stores Depot RAAF Toowoomba (7 SD) | 7 Australian Advanced Workshop Toowoomba (were they at Harristown?) |
8 MD Training Depot? Is this Highfields? | 25 ASD? (Air Supply Depot?) | AEME Workshops Harristown |
Armament Shop Toowoomba | Cabarlah Training Camp | Cabarlah Staff School |
Drayton - RAAF WT station | Engineer Intelligence Section at Highfields | Highfields landing Ground |
Land Headquarters Gas School, Cabarlah | Gas School Toowoomba, Land Headquarters | Gas Wing, First Army School of Engineers |
Harristown AEME Camp | Harristown Ordnance Depot | Harristown Ordnance Camp |
Harristown AEME
and Ordnance Installations (see 3 Australian Advance Ordnance Depot) |
Highfields Military Training School | Toowoomba Drill Ground |
Toowoomba Drill Hall | Toowoomba Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot US Army? | Tulana Bulk Storage Tank? |
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