BORE 6A STAGING CAMP
BARKLEY HIGHWAY, NT
DURING WWII
Bore 6A Staging Camp (Night Camp No. 2) was located on the Barkley Highway 203 miles west of Camooweal. The location is now called 'Frewena'. The land was hired from the Northern Territory Pastoral Company Limited.
The name "Frewena" apparently came from "Frew" after Frew Creek and "Ena" after Mrs Ena Whitlock. The Whitlocks later ran a pub and petrol store and garden. Frewena is about 100 miles to the east of Tennant Creek.
NAA Archives file
Plan of Night Staging
Camp Bore 6A (203 Mile)
The Darwin Overland Maintenance Force (DOMF) was an Australian Army unit responsible for the supply of food, medical, sanitary and signal services to the gangs building the North - South road in the Northern Territory and any military personnel camped along the road such as the overnight camps at Banka Banka, Powell's Creek, Elliot, etc. When they built the road from Mount Isa, a similar force was created, called Mt Isa Maintenance Force (MIMF).
These camp location were so named because the Australian Army, in 1941, sunk water bores approximately every 10 miles from Alice Springs to Mount Isa and numbered them accordingly. Most of these bores are still there in use today.
The Bore 6A Staging Camp was sold to a Mr W. H. Whitlock in January 1946 by the Commonwealth Disposals Commission as follows:-
| Showers and Ablutions | 64' x 17' | £2 |
| Hut, Canteen Store | 60' x 18' | £10 |
| Hut, Canteen Store | 57' x 18' | £10 |
| Latrine Building | 24' x 7' | 10 Shillings |
| Shed | 16' x 13' | £5 |
| Shed | 8' x 7' | 10 Shillings |
| Latrine Building | 24' x 7' | 10 Shillings |
| Kitchen, Recreation Room and Orderly Room, exclud. Refrig. Room | 150' x 30' 150' x 30' 60' x 40' |
£185 |
| Shed | 18' x 15' | £1 |
| Shed | 18' x 15' | £2 |
| Hut | 57' x 21' | £40 |
| Hut | 40' x 18' | £25 |
| Hut | 33' x 18' | £30 |
| Shed | 12' x 6' | £5 |
| Showers and Ablutions | 43' x 10' | £15 |
| 2 Latrine Buildings | 24' x 11' ea | £1 |
| Latrine building | 14' x 7' | £2 |
| Showers and Ablutions | 16' x 10' | £10 |
| Hut | 20' x 16' | £2 |
| 3 Huts | 30' x 16' | £2 |
| 2 x 5,000 gallon GCI Tank | £50 | |
| 1 x 100 gallon GCI Tank | £1 | |
| 1 x 1,000 gallon GCI Tank (at bore) | £2/10/- | |
| GRAND TOTAL | £407 |
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