Something else of interest near Bathurst The Bathurst Migrant Camp c.1954. Courtesy Bathurst & District Historical Society In 1940 an army camp was established on a local property on the Limekilns Road at Kelso near Bathurst. The camp site was geographically isolated from the main town. This camp was originally built to accommodate the 1st Armoured Division A.I.F., but it was later decided that it would become an infantry training centre. Many units were trained in Bathurst before being sent overseas to Singapore, the Middle East and New Guinea. I was there in 1950 as a migrant child aged 5 At the end of the war the army camp became a migrant reception and training Centre for European refugees and displaced persons. It was one of the major migrant reception centres in Australia, accepting around 100,000 migrants between 1948 and 1952. from there we travelled to Old Jindabyne where my dad worked on the Snowy Hydro Scheme We left in 1956 Jindabyne was flooded in 1967. my family story is a long one not unlike thousands of displaced persons who arrived in Australia after the war
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Something else of interest near Bathurst The Bathurst Migrant Camp c.1954. Courtesy Bathurst & District Historical Society
In 1940 an army camp was established on a local property on the Limekilns Road at Kelso near Bathurst. The camp site was geographically isolated from the main town. This camp was originally built to accommodate the 1st Armoured Division A.I.F., but it was later decided that it would become an infantry training centre. Many units were trained in Bathurst before being sent overseas to Singapore, the Middle East and New Guinea.
I was there in 1950 as a migrant child aged 5 At the end of the war the army camp became a migrant reception and training Centre for European refugees and displaced persons. It was one of the major migrant reception centres in Australia, accepting around 100,000 migrants between 1948 and 1952. from there we travelled to Old Jindabyne where my dad worked on the Snowy Hydro Scheme
We left in 1956 Jindabyne was flooded in 1967. my family story is a long one not unlike thousands of displaced persons who arrived in Australia after the war
Looks boring as hell, like most places in Australia. Its the perfect place to live but terrible for holidaying