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

No. 3 Folkestone Street. The same house that can be seen
in the above B & W photo

Looks like a new house on the right of the other house.

No. 3 Folkestone Street, Bowen Hills at far left of the photo

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.

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

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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.

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