COMMAND POST ON CASTLE HILL

visits since 5 November 2001

The Command Post at the end of one of the walking tracks

The Queensland Main Roads Commission played a major part in Queensland during World War 2 building roads, aerodromes, fortifications, railway works, buildings, camps, etc. The following is a paragraph from a booklet titled "The History of the Queensland Main Roads Commission during World War II 1939 - 1945":-

"Fortifications, command post, engine room, and searchlight emplacements were also constructed on Signal Hill. The site selected for the command post was on a pinnacle of rock on the crest of Castle Hill. This necessitated a long and heavy haul of material and men to the parking area at the top of Castle Hill. Thence the material had to be man-handled along a goat track to the site of the job. All concrete had to be mixed by hand and formwork and concrete placed in a very restricted area with a vertical drop on three sides."

The Command Post was apparently also in constant communications with RAN Station 21, the Port War Signal Station on Magnetic Island.

	View of Townsville Harbour
	A view from inside the Command Post
	3 underground cables going from the car park area towards to bunker
	Close-up view of the 3 cables
	I found a cable coming down from Castle Hill at 273 Walker Street near the old Technical College. Is it associated with WW2 activities or is it just an old underground power cable to a house on the hill?

Heaps of WW2 books available at Amazon.com

This page first produced 5 November 2001

This page last updated 02 April 2002