WW2 BUNKERS & FORTIFICATIONS IN THE TOWNSVILLE AREA
| visits since 6 October 2000 |
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1 Wireless Unit Intelligence and Intercept Operations Room
bunker at Stuart (Townsville) |
208th
Anti Aircraft Battalion Battery (The Strand, Stanton Hill, South Townsville and Cape Cleveland) |
3 Fighter
Sector HQ at Stuart (Townsville) |
| 5th
Australian Division Headquarters Bunker Dick Creek, Roseneath |
Air Raid Shelters, Flinders Street, known as "Hanlon's Hideouts" | Air Raid Shelter Townsville Railway Station |
| Ammunition Magazine - Castle Hill | Army
Signals Communications Centre and "Shadow Exchange" Stuart State School |
Army
Signals Communications Centre Roseneath Bunker |
| Bomb Shelter, "The Rocks" Guesthouse, 20 Cleveland Terrace | Bundock Street Quarry Bunker | Castle Hill (Townsville) |
| Church
Street Underground Bunker (Church St., West End, Townsville) |
Combined
Operational Intelligence Centre (COIC) Inside Castle Hill at West End, Townsville |
Command Post on top of Castle Hill, Townsville |
| Customs House Tunnels | Fort
Kissing Point (Townsville) |
Green
Street Bunker ( near Sidney St., West End in Townsville) |
| Jimmy's Lookout
Anti-aircraft Gun & Search Light Battery (Townsville) |
Koala
US Ordnance Services Depot (Stuart, Townsville) |
Kurukan
(Kangaroo) US
Ordnance Depot (Just north of Townsville) (Just north of Townsville) (Just north of Townsville) (Just north of Townsville) |
| Machine Gun positions on cliff above Tobruk Baths | Macrossan Underground Hospital | |
| Magnetic
Island Forts (Magnetic Island) |
Military
Command Center inside Castle Hill (at Green St, West End, Townsville) |
Mount
Louisa (Townsville) |
| Mount Elliott Bunker? Was there one? (Townsville area) |
Mount Stuart Bunker |
Mount St.
John 16 Heavy Anti-aircraft Battery |
| Nelly
Bay Anti-aircraft Battery (Magnetic Island) |
Pallarenda Gun Emplacements (Townsville) |
Queens
Park Bunker (Townsville) |
| Queens
Garden tunnel to Castle Hill (Townsville) |
Ramsay Street Bunker 5th Air Force HQ (Garbutt, Townsville) |
Red Brick Tunnels in Townsville CBD |
| Roseneath Orderly Room "Bunker" | Ross
River Bunkers On southern side of Ross River near the mouth of the river |
Scully
& Francis Streets (West End, Townsville) Was there an underground bunker here? |
| Semi-fortified stone buildings at West End in Townsville | Three storey underground
bunker Maria Street, Kelso, Townsville It's still there! |
"Shadow Exchange" Stuart State School, Townsville |
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Stuart
Creek Bunker- Unidentified usage Stuart, Townsville |
Stanton Hill Anti-aircraft
battery Our Ladys Mount School, Townsville |
Three storey underground
bunker Maria Street, Kelso, Townsville It's still there! |
| Toomulla Underground Hospital, near Douglas |
Tunnels
in Townsville There is mounting evidence that some of these tunnels did exist!! |
Underground
Complex (possibly multi-level) on Ingham Rd, Townsville Did it exist? possibly between Douglas St and Ramsay St or between Ramsay St and Peel St., Garbutt |
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Underground Hospital Heatley Primary School, Townsville roof supposedly propped up with wooden beams |
Underground
Hospital, Church Rd., Jensen near Black River (Was there one there?) |
Underground Concrete Room at Cranbrook, Townsville (approx 18 m long by 10 m wide) |
| Yarrawonga bunker, Townsville | WW2 Bunkers in the Stuart and Roseneath areas of Townsville |
The
Australian Bunker Project
"In search of WWII underground
facilities (bunkers) on Australian soil."
Bunkers, Tunnels, Fortifications in Australia during WW2
Proposal to relocate Area
Combined HQ in Townsville
to an underground location inside Castle Hill
Utilization of semi-underground buildings as at 2 December 1943
Can you help me with more information on these bunkers?
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This page first produced 6 October 2000
This page last updated 03 March 2006
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