FOOD DUMPED BY THE US ARMY
AT KENMORE, BRISBANE, QLD
DURING WWII

The book-keeper at a firm where Geoff Mayhew worked, told him of seeing truck loads of stuff being dumped near her house by the US Army. She lived as a kid on the corner of Moggill Road and Chapel Hill Road at Kenmore and remembered watching over several days, convoys of American trucks turning off Moggill Road and heading down to Cubberla Creek where tons of stuff was being dumped.

She and other kids from the area spent days going down to the creek with their billy carts to retrieve food such as canned corned beef before it was all covered over. She didn't remember what else was dumped, just that food was in short supply and very welcomed by families during that period, so to see that much food being dumped and buried by the Americans was heartbreaking.

The dump site is now the Kenmore Bears AFL club grounds right next to the Western Freeway.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Geoff Mayhew for his assistance with this web page.

Can anyone help me with more information?

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This page first produced 11 March 2023

This page last updated 11 March 2023