During the war, Gailes, like all other clubs, had its difficulties. Machinery failures caused the closure of the second nine for months and clubhouse supplies were so scarce that the club introduced its own ration tickets
The course was far from congested but there was activity around the clubhouse. The American Army established its officer training unit “Camp Columbia”at Wacol and there was a camp of evacuated Dutch from Indonesia along Wilruna Street towards the city. Later an Australian Army contingent was based on the Goodna racecourse. The club invited all of these to make such use as they wished of the clubhouse and all of them accepted the invitation. Occasionally up to 300 men were there writing letters and following such other recreations as they could in the dim light of the blacked-out clubhouse Gailes Golf Club The First Fifty Years
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