DOWNLANDS COLLEGE, TOOWOOMBA, QLD
COMMANDEERED BY THE MILITARY DURING WW2

The Australian Army  requisitioned Downlands College in Toowoomba and established the Medical Division for its 117th Australian General Hospital. The primary boys from Downlands College were evacuated to the Grande Hotel in Dalby. The sub-juniors were located in a Dalby boarding house, the junior boys were in a former maternity hospital and the sub-seniors, seniors and teaching staff were housed at the Queens Hotel.

The school was able to return to Toowoomba in 1944.

REFERENCE BOOKS

"And all this shall be added"
Catholic Education in Queensland - Volume VI
by Susan Mary Tobin

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This page first produced 23 June 2002

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