Enoggera Army Camp and Barracks

Gallipoli Barracks/Enoggera Military Area

Enoggera Army Camp was Brisbane’s largest established permanent military camp prior to World War Two. As such, it role in the early stages of the war was to train and equip state militia units; and then Queensland volunteers for the 2nd Australian Imperial Force (AIF) that was being raised for overseas service. Throughout the war, it operated as a training camp run by Queensland’s Northern Command, with a variety of specialist Army courses run by units based at Enoggera. It also had a unique Captured Equipment Depot that stored and assessed Japanese military hardware.

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Location

300 Samford Road

Enoggera, QLD 4051

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Place type

Military camp

History

At Federation in 1901, the Commonwealth took responsibility for Queensland’s defences. In 1908, the Commonwealth bought 1,235 acres of land at Enoggera, then an outer and largely undeveloped part of Brisbane. That year, a rifle range was established. This was followed by the School of Musketry instruction building, a small-arms store plus two cordite [artillery] magazines (1910–11), a laboratory (1912), four small-arms ammunition magazines plus an Australian Light Horse Remount Depot (1913), a fifth small-arms ammunition magazine (1914–15), an Officers’ Quarters (1915), a hospital complex including a gymnasium (1916) and a Royal Australian Field Ambulance (RAFA) administration building (1917). The...

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