PIONEER NEWS

The 2/1-2/2 Pioneer Battalions Newsletter

Rocky Creek Memorial Park, Qld

IMG_3180

IMG_5438

IMG_5439

IMG_5440

IMG_5442

Memorial Park

PB211520

PB211521

PB211522

PB211523

Pioneer plaques

Site Entry

Banner

Located a few kilometres along the Kennedy Highway north of Tolga, Qld, the Rocky Creek War Memorial Park is situated on the 2/2 Australian General Hospital laundry and medical stores site.
During World War II the Tableland area became the largest military base in Australia with camps at Tinaroo, Kairi, Atherton, Wongabel, Herberton, Wondecla, Ravenshoe and Mt.Garnet.
Rocky Creek was the site of the largest military hospital in the Southern Hemisphere – a 3000 bed hospital which treated over 60,000 patients from 1943 to 1945.
(refer to "Links" to go to their website).

The Tableland area is also where the Pioneers trained before being posted north.