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Sandgate RAAF Station
No.3 Embarkation Depot and RAE searchlight position (Brighton Health Campus in 2019)
Only two 'Sidney Williams huts' remain of the Sandgate RAAF Station’s structures training base, which were built prior to the Pacific War in 1941. Constructed to house RAAF and WAAAF trainees, the barracks were pre fabricated and designed for ease of construction. Although they are no longer in their original position, they are close by, between Twenty Third and Twenty Fourth Avenues.
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Only two 'Sidney Williams huts' remain of the Sandgate RAAF Station’s structures training base, which were built prior to the Pacific War in 1941. Constructed to house RAAF and WAAAF trainees, the barracks were pre fabricated and designed for ease of construction.
A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) advance party had arrived by rail at Sandgate on 9 December 1940. To their dismay, the airmen discovered that no buildings had been constructed on the site due to the recent intense wet season in Brisbane. So the advance party moved back to the new RAAF base at Amberley, west of Ipswich. Thus...
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