RESIDENCES &
BUILDING COMMANDEERED
BY THE MILITARY IN MELBOURNE DURING WW2
| 39 Acland Street,
South Yarra used by Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) |
225 Domain Road,
South Yarra Netherlands Forces Intelligence Service |
"Airlie", corner of
Punt Road and Domain Road HQ for Special Operations |
| "Banff", 145 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda | Capitol Building, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Allied Services Club - The "Dug-Out" | Century
Building, 125-32 Swanston St. RAAF HQ Signals Unit |
| Coventry St. building, "N"
Block Combined Operational Intelligence Centre, Central War Room, & Area Combined HQ Melbourne |
"Frognall" 54 Mont
Albert Road, Canterbury, VIC Melbourne W/T Shadow Signal Station (Wireless Telegraphy) |
"Grosvenor" Queens Road Australian Army Cipher Production Unit |
| "Goodrest", 104
Toorak Road, South Yarra used by FELO |
Irving
Road, Toorak RAAF HQ Signals Unit |
Ivanhoe
Grammar School Headquarters Home Forces |
| Kellow
House, St. Kilda Rd., South Yarra RAAF HQ Signals Unit Radio Receiving Station RAAF |
Kensington
Town Hall underground "Command Bunker" |
"Leura" Possible WAAAF Barracks on corner Toorak and Orrong Roads, Toorak |
| Melbourne Boy's High
School RAN Establishment and possible tunnel to South Yarra Station |
"Meriden",
437 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne Hostel Meriden (Run by the Australian Comforts Fund and the Young Women's Christian Association YWCA for Servicewomen on leave) |
"Monterey"
Apartments Queens Road Analytical section of FRUMEL |
| MacRobertson
Girls High School Headquarters for the U.S. Army Forces in Australia |
"Orrong" 52 Clendon Road, Toorak |
Prince of
Wales Hotel, Fitzroy Street, St. Kilda used as barracks by the military |
|
"Queen's
Mansion", 364 Beaconsfield Parade, St Kilda Hostel for Dutch & Netherlands East Indies Servicemen |
"Rathbaron" 75 Clendon Road, Toorak |
Royal Melbourne
Hospital used by the US 4th General Hospital |
|
Trustees Executive &
Agency Co. Ltd building 401-403 Collins Street MacArthur's HQ |
Wesley
College St. Kilda Rd, Melbourne Master-General of the Ordnance |
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