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Wolston House and Camp Columbia: shared heritage in Brisbane’s wartime landscape – MoU signed

Charles van der Plas: colonial expert and advocate of gradual reform

Brisbane’s Three Wartime Headquarters: Australia, America and the Netherlands East Indies

From Camp Columbia to World War: Understanding Australia’s Role in the Pacific

From Camp Columbia to Operation Kraai: The Australian training of NEFIS officer Jan Bakker

Mapping the road home: NEFIS, Camp Columbia and the Allied intelligence war

Brisbane’s Three Wartime Headquarters: Australia, America and the Netherlands East Indies

Preserved Camp Columbia buildings at the National Service Heritage Precinct, Wacol

Memories of WWII and Camp Columbia from Wacol residents

The 91st Station Hospital at Camp Columbia

The 28th Surgical Hospital at Camp Columbia

Wacol Station and the railway lifeline of Camp Columbia

Camp Columbia and the wartime aviation career of Marinus Willem Reith

Camp Columbia, Wacol and the international wartime aviation career of Willy Erkelens

From Camp Columbia to correctional precinct: The transformation of Wacol

Wacol Migrant Centre

From Camp Columbia to Wacol Army Camp: a continuing military landscape

The Dutch Women Army Corps in Brisbane

Aboriginal presence in the Wacol area

Brisbane and the maritime lifeline to New Guinea: beyond Camp Columbia

Wacol Housing Camp as a site of Aboriginal advocacy: the role of Cyril Richards

Wacol Housing Camp another aspect of post war Camp Columbia

Archerfield Memories

Camp Columbia and the Indonesian Independence story: Mohamad Bondan in wartime Australia

Early American camp planning at Wacol uncovered

New partnership highlights Indonesian wartime presence at Camp Columbia

A rare visualisation of an American Army camp in wartime Brisbane

Aboriginal lives at Wacol: housing, assimilation and the post-war legacy of Camp Columbia

Air Chief Marshal Charles Burnett and Australia’s engagement with Dutch intelligence, 1941–1944

Aunty Theresa Williams and Wacol: Aboriginal oral history from the migration camp

Camp Columbia and Base Section 3: Brisbane in the Allied logistics system

The 152nd Field Hospital at Camp Columbia

General Walter Krueger And Camp Columbia

Camp Columbia and the U.S. Sixth Army: A Signal Officer’s First-Hand Account

Eye witness description of Camp Columbia

Elva Mary Bennett, Gerk van der Land and a family at war

Reunited at Camp Columbia and married in Brisbane: the wartime journey of Jack and Truus Hompe

New Zealand and Brisbane during the Second World War: a limited intelligence connection

Kangaroos in the camp: wildlife encounters at Camp Columbia?

The Americans in Brisbane

Brisbane at war

From Camp Columbia to Dutch New Guinea: the journey of Piet Merkelijn

Overlooked outpost: Brisbane and Camp Columbia in American WWII literature

Americans at Mount Coot-tha during World War II

Rare insights into the Dutch occupation of Camp Columbia in 1945

Food and goods rationing in Brisbane during WWII

The Battle of Brisbane: Two sides of the same riot

WWII Brisbane Bus Tour — tracing the city of the Allied Capital

From Symposium to Strategy: Securing Brisbane’s Place as WWII Allied Capital

Rare ceremonial sword from the Netherlands East Indies to be displayed for the first time

VP Day 2025 commemoration in Brisbane

Brisbane’s overlooked wartime legacy: the forgotten Allied capital of Australia

Camp Columbia – a wartime crossroads on Brisbane’s doorstep

KNIL soldier Anne Beetstra: A Dutch-Canadian woman at Camp Columbia, 1944–46

Vale Dr Jonathan (Jack) Ford

WWII Symposium Allied co-operation in Brisbane moved to UQ St Lucia

The untold Dutch chapter of Brisbane’s wartime history

Historical snapshot: Wacol

Camp Columbia Army Huts ended up at Merthyr Bowls Club, at New Farm

Forgotten allies: how Brisbane’s WWII history has faded from Dutch memory

UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Blast Witness-Inala 1954

Brisbane City Streets of Remembrance – Community Input Invited

The Orliks of Boy Swallows Universe and the real migrant story of Camp Columbia

SIGSALY: Brisbane’s role in top-secret wartime communications

Mission X: Australia’s Forgotten Fleet in the Pacific War – Exhibition at Bongaree

Construction costs Camp Columbia £250,000

WWII Sites in Brisbane

Sinking of the Centaur

Solemn ceremony to farewell fallen American soldiers

Radio Communication in Brisbane During World War II

Brisbane’s role in Allied naval efforts.

Richard Casey instrumental in selecting Brisbane as a key WWII base.

USAF Military Cemetery – Ipswich -Wreath laying for Dutch Javanese Soldiers

War Brides

Brisbane City Council in WWII

Gailes Golf Club opened its doors for the soldiers

Queensland Rail History – World War II

US to investigate 1943 blast Goodna schoolyard

Darra Deputation – complaint about US soldiers

Civic Restrictions in Brisbane during WWII

Complains about conduct of Negro Troops

Internment and Civil Alien Corps

The Volunteers Defence Corps

WWII – Queensland Schools Closed

UXO (Unexploded Ordnance) Blast Witness-Inala 1954

Joan Realia (nee Phillips/ Harrison) daughter of a US soldier

Dennis Hughes’ father – a private in the US Army,

Merv Bryant – a civilian employed by the US Army

Eugenie Blackney (nee Shand) survived the Japanese Camps in Java

Kelvin Lang- Armoury Driver for RAAF

Bill Bentson – studied at the US Officers School

Bryan “Tex” Grantham – US Army, 32nd infantry division-“The Red Arrows.” Brisbane 1942-45

Lona Grantham (nee Price) – WWII and Oxley

Ted Dunlop Remembering Oxley/Corinda during WWII

WWII stories from Redbank by Val Jackson

Patricia Metcalfe and Wim van Wely met at Camp Columbia

Allied Translator and Interpreter Section at Indooroopilly

A Goodna child’s view of WWII – by Claire Wilson (nee Evans)

Joan Lord (nee Murphy) – Wacol during WWII