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Water Street Army Depot
Valley Drill Hall
The Water Street Army Depot was opened by the Commonwealth Government in 1925, utilising an 1880s Queensland colonial defence forces drill hall that was shifted from Boundary Street, Spring Hill. During World War II, the Water Street Army Depot acquired more buildings for its principal role as a recruit processing centre for the Australian Military Forces (militia), the 6th Division A.I.F., the Volunteer Defence Corps and the Civil Construction Corps. The Depot closed in 1988. It is one of only four, infantry drill halls remaining of the 12 such halls built throughout Brisbane.
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The old drill hall (built 1884) at Boundary Street, Spring Hill was relocated to a new army depot site in Water Street, Fortitude Valley in 1925. From 1925–39, the depot expanded and it was the base for an infantry battalion of the Australian Military Forces (AMF or militia).
After the outbreak of World War II, the drill hall was one of
just three AMF depots in Brisbane selected by the Federal Government to accept and process the volunteers enlisting as part of Queensland’s contribution to the new 2nd Australian Imperial Force (AIF). At the same time, the Depot continued to accept new...
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