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Interwar, Australia, Western Australia, Rockingham Camp, Ferry Emerald, 8 Battery, 1925

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1925

Overview

Rockingham Camp Troops arriving on boat "Emerald"

Historical information

The location of the Army camp appears on early maps as a pair of narrow road reserves within a Commonage or Common Reserve 1485 – a large reserve that extended roughly between Wellard Road and Anketell Road. This section of town common land was utilised by the army during WW1 and WW2, as well as the open spaces of unoccupied bushland to the east of the township, which was considered a good training ground for both men and horses.

The artillery also made use of the bare sandhills around Warnbro Sound as a practice ground, and left there many unexploded shells, not retrieved until the 1980s.
The Radar Detection Huts located nearby (on the south side of Wellard Road) are associated with this army camp, and it is believed that the place was a campsite for the military personnel who operated the radar surveillance site.

During the 1950s and 1960s the site was occupied by a nightclub, the Ding Dong.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-32-P1900.2209

Item type

Photographs

Themes

War and Conflict
Transport > Ferries

Year

1925

Geotag

-32.152744475787, 115.74640803647

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