Australian Staging Camp - Kalgoorlie
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Brief History
There was a change of railway gauges at Kalgoorlie from the WA domestic gauge to the Standard Gauge trans line that ran from Kalgoorlie to Port Pirie in South Australia. This line was subject to not infrequent interruptions, and thus a staging camp was established at Parkestone in July 1942 to hold and feed troops between trains from Perth. It continued to provide this role until the end of the war.
Unit Personnel
- Alexander William Turner MID 6 Dec 1941 - 4 Jan 1944
- Bertie Alfred Holmes 4 Jul 1942 - 28 Apr 1944
- Thomas Egan 4 Jul 1942 - 30 Mar 1943
- Henry Edward Knapp 28 Sep 1942 - 30 Aug 1943
- Gunter Krebs 30 Apr - 28 May 1943
Passing through
Notes
Content has come from The Unit Guide - Volume 6 - The Australian Army 1939-1945, page 6.417 - Graham R McKenzie-Smith - Big Sky Publishing - 2018