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Australian Army 7th and 9th Division Military Camps
Tinaroo Falls Dam and Lake Tinaroo
Scarce evidence remains of the military camp sites formerly occupied by the 9th and 7th Divisions at Danbulla, due to post-war agricultural clearing and inundation by the waters of the Tinaroo Falls Dam after 1957. However, a few building slabs and army mess fireplaces can still be discovered in the scrub surrounding Lake Tinaroo.
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In October 1942 Prime Minister John Curtin requested that the 9th Division be released from service in North Africa after the siege of Tobruk and the battles of El Alamein, and returned to Australia to be utilized against the Japanese in the Pacific. The Division arrived by sea at Fremantle in February 1943 and welcome-home parades were held in every Australian capital city. In March the Division began regrouping on the Atherton Tableland near the settlements of Kairi, Danbulla and Barrine to begin jungle warfare training before embarking on the New Guinea campaign. By early 1944 the former camp sites...
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