CAMP PERRY PARK
BRISBANE, QLD
DURING WW2
| visits since 3 March 2002 |
The US Navy had the following units at Camp Perry Park:-
N.S.D. Main Office
EM Barrack
RP10 and Reproduction Section
EM Clothing and Ships Store
Medical Supply Depot,
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1944 - D. Bert who stayed in Brisbane from June 1943 to January 1945. He was then shipped to Biak off the New Guinea coast. |
April 1944 - Men leaving for work |
May 1944 - Mess laundry, cook house, enlisted men's mess hall, officer's mess |
May 1944 - Fran Marr reads home town paper in cooks quarters |
 March 2002 No. 3 Folkestone Street. The same house
that can be seen |
 March 2002 Looks like a new house on the right of the other house. |
 March 2002 No. 3 Folkestone Street, Bowen Hills at far left of the photo |
 March 2002 Other houses in Folkestone Street. You can see the tall spire in the background. |
May 1944 - Officer's showers - mess laundry, book house, enlisted men's mess hall, officer's row. |
 March 2002 Almost similar scene to the above B &
W photo. The tall white spire near the centre of this photo can just be
seen behind a tree at the far left of the above |
 March 2002 Click on photo to enlarge A General view from Edmonstone Road side |
Det. Hd Qtrs, 3rd Medical Depot Co "Main Street" |
May 1944 - Camp Perry Park, Mayne Junction, Brisbane, |
May 1944 - Down "Main St" from grand stand Navy Warehouse |
December 1943 - Capt. Roy E. Brooks, our Det. C.O. |
October 1944 - Me (D. Bert), "Dinky", Elmer Strange, Arnold
Ringstad, |
1944 , Old "Dave" David John Yesberg of Toowomba, Qld. The "Yank's cobber", a pal to all the 3rd MDC. He did our errands and saw to it we got service. Age 50 died 13 December 1944 at 5:30 p.m. in Brisbane. Buried as a pauper. John "Smitty" Smith saw to it he had a cross, which we made for his grave. |
Can anyone tell more more about D. Bert?
Can anyone identify any people in the above photographs?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I'd like to thank Jim Culberson for supplying me with the above black and white photographs of Camp Perry Park. Jim purchased an old photo album which has over 70 photos of Camp Perry Park plus some foldout tourist cards with shots of Brisbane, Clayfield, Redcliffe, Banyo, Nudgee and Sandgate.
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This page first produced 3 March 2002
This page last updated 17 January 2004
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