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28-08-16, 10:14 PM
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....anyone from Brisbane.....
Gun carriage being towed along behind an Army truck in a street parade, Brisbane, July 1942. Army truck is towing the gun carriage past All Hallows' School and St. Ann's Industrial School in Ann Street.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...n_carriage.jpg
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28-08-16, 10:30 PM
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I grew up there
 Mick
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28-08-16, 11:07 PM
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...can you relate to the location in the photograph...????
Jo
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28-08-16, 11:34 PM
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Brisbane was a big army town in 1942. I think more soldiers than civilians at the time. My dad was a boy during that time (having arrived there in 1941 after being evacuated from Hong Kong). I recall him telling me how there was a big US Army presence there. Some fights with Aussie soldiers over local girls (Over-Paid, Over-Sexed and Over Here) occurred in Brisbane. The US Army was also segregated as well. The whites on the northside and blacks on the southside. Mick
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29-08-16, 06:38 AM
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I had a close cousin who served in the Royal Navy during WW2, spent a lot of time based on Brisbane and after the war spent the rest of his life wishing he was back there, but never made it. A daughter of mine married a bloke from Bundaberg and lived in Brisbane for a few years before moving to Melbourne, so Brisbane must have something going for it. Mind you, when I lived in Perth, WA I did hear it described as 'The other friendly place'
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