Camp Yeronga Park (US)

Yeronga Park

With its extensive pre-war recreation facilities, the US Army chose Yeronga Park for a military camp in 1942. Camp Yeronga Park housed a variety of units including, military police, signallers, USASOS enlisted men and WACs. The Australian Army placed an oil depot in an undesirable and low-lying section of the park. In July 1944, the WACs were joined in training at the camp by Dutch servicewomen. The US Army remained at Yeronga Park until the end World War Two. It took another two years, to restore the park for the use of the Brisbane public.

Place information

Location

78A Park Road

Yeronga, QLD 4104

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Place type

Military camp

History

Yeronga Park was gazetted as public parkland by the local authority the Stephens Shire Council in 1888. Arbor Day tree plantings began in 1890. By 1942, Yeronga Park was well developed with fencing (1889), a bandstand (1903), toilets (1906), concrete and turf cricket pitches (1910+), Queensland Blind Cricketers Association hall (1920s), tennis courts and shed (1921), croquet clubhouse and lawn (1925), Annerley Bowling Clubhouse and green (1929), shale rock wall along Ipswich Road (early 1930s), concrete drafts board (1935) and a scout den (1941). There were shelter sheds, seats and paths of differing vintage. The park’s most significant structure was...

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