
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
in the above B & W photo |

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
B & W photo |

March 2002
Click on photo to enlarge
A General view from Edmonstone Road side
looking towards Folkestone Street. |
Det. Hd Qtrs, 3rd Medical Depot Co "Main Street" |
May 1944 - Camp Perry Park, Mayne Junction, Brisbane,
Queensland,
Australia, old grand stand ball park |
May 1944 - Down "Main St" from grand stand Navy Warehouse
right
hand up corner soap works in distance |
December 1943 - Capt. Roy E. Brooks, our Det. C.O.
in front of his tent
in officer's row |
October 1944 - Me (D. Bert), "Dinky", Elmer Strange, Arnold
Ringstad,
Moody (dog), Buckshot Rhodes last shots at Camp Perry Park |
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. |