RAAF Recreation Centre Images

Some of the following pictures and information is placed on this website with the kind permission of the Australian War Memorial and must not to be reproduced in any form. High Resolution copies may be obtained from the Australian War Memorial website by quoting the ID number. To the Australian War Memorial website The other pictures on this page are placed with the kind permission of Peter Dunn from his website, Peter Dunn's "Australia @ War" web site here
6th June 1944 - Three WAAAF members on the steps of their Barracks in St Patrick's College, which overlooks the new RAAF Recreation Centre on The Strand. From left, Aircraftwoman (ACW) Mary Morgan of Toowong, Qld; ACW Josephine Mallen of Millmerran, QLD; ACW Thelma Brown of Biloela, Qld. Photo ID NEA0548	31st Oct 1944 - Organised and trained by Miss M. McCauley, a WAAAF choir rehearses for its first public appearance at the 3rd RAAF/WAAAF Handicraft Exhibition held at the RAAF Recreation Centre on The Strand on the 1st & 2nd Nov 1944. Miss McCauley, formerly on the ABC staff, was assistant to Captain E. Curtis, Salvation Army Welfare worker attached to WAAAF Units at Townsville. Photo ID NEA0628
31st Oct 1944 - Organised and trained by Miss M. McCauley, a WAAAF choir in costume, and with the necessary male voices on stage for this Russian item, rendered excerpts from "Balalaika". The appearance was at the 3rd RAAF/WAAAF Handicraft Exhibition held at the RAAF Recreation Centre on The Strand on the 1st & 2nd Nov 1944. Miss McCauley, formerly on the ABC staff, was assistant to Captain E. Curtis, Salvation Army Welfare worker attached to WAAAF Units at Townsville. Photo ID NEA0631	RAAF Recreation Centre was situated on The Strand, Townsville somewhere opposite St Patrick's College and comprised of a main entertainment hall, a canteen hut, and a reading and writing hut This picture by kind permission of Peter Dunn's "Australia @ War" web site at www.ozatwar.com
Another view of the RAAF Recreation Centre situated on The Strand, Townsville somewhere opposite St Patrick's College and comprised of a main entertainment hall, a canteen hut, and a reading and writing hut This picture by kind permission of Peter Dunn's "Australia @ War" web site at www.ozatwar.com