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Charters Towers War Cemetery

Situated within the Charters Towers Cemetery on Dalrymple Road, the war cemetery contains the graves of 16 soldiers and 17 airmen of the Australian Forces. Nine soldiers are also buried in the civil cemetery. Their death were the result of wounds and accidents.

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Location

Gregory Development Road

Charters Towers, QLD 4820

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Place type

Cemetery

History

During WWII the area around Charters Towers accommodated a number of Army and RAAF units. Army troops were trained at Sellheim, including the 11th Infantry Brigade. After the Japanese entered the war in 1941, Sellheim became a Reinforcement Depot and troops from the Jungle Training Centre at Canungra, in south-east Queensland were staged through to the Atherton Tablelands and New Guinea. It was also the site for a Supply Depot and Ammunitions Company and Army Workshop. The 116 Australian General Hospital was in Charters Towers, with a Convalescent Depot at Sellheim.

At Macrossan, a United States Air Force School trained RAAF...

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