MILITARY CAMPS/UNITS
AT OONOONBA (PREVIOUSLY FAIRFIELD)
TOWNSVILLE DURING WW2
| 13
Australian Army Personnel Staging Camp, Oonoonba (13 APSC) |
43rd
Landing Craft Company
3rd Water Transport Group
(Oonoonba) |
Ammunition Dump
(US Army
on Oonoonba Animal Health Station |
American
Negro soldiers camp
next to the laboratory
at Oonoonba Animal Health Station |
Australian Light
Horse Cavalry Camp
at Oonoonba Animal Health Station |
Australian
Army Camp on southern side of O'Donnell Street near Tom Nicholls Creek
(now Gordon Creek) |
| Anti-aircraft
gun near O'Donnell Street, Oonoonba during WW2 |
CCC
Camp at Oonoonba |
Dances
in the CCC Hall at Oonoonba |
| Fairfield
Hotel, Oonoonba |
Oonoonba
Auxiliary Fire Brigade |
Open air movie theatre at the
13
Australian Army Personnel Staging Camp, at Oonoonba, |
Quartermaster Poultry Farm
"Coconut Grove", Oonoonba |
RAAF
Building relocated to Ireland Street, Oonoonba from Ralston Street, West
End, Townsville |
Rex
Theatre at Oonoomba
built after WW2 using a WW2 Military building |
St. Anthony's
Catholic Church
Ireland Street, Oonoonba
Weekly Dances |
US
Army Camp at Tom Nicholls Creek (now Gordon Creek) near O'Donnell Street |
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REFERENCE BOOKS
"Fairfield and her Folk 1868 1995"
"Oonoonba State School, 1920 - 1995"
Editor Denyse Bonney
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This page last updated 06 November 2020
