| Charters Towers War Cemetery |
| Queensland, Australia |
Photo kindly supplied by Don Dennes, Project Officer, Office of Australian War Graves
| During WW2 the area around Charters
Towers accommodated a number of Army and RAAF units. Army troops were
trained at Sellheim, including thr 11th Infantry Brigade. After the Japanese
entered the war in 1941, Sellheim became a Reinforcement Depot and troops
from the Jungle Training Centre at Canungra were staged through to the
Atherton Tablelands and New Guinea. It was also the site for a Supply Depot
and Ammunitions Company and Army Workshop. The 116 Australian General
Hospital was in Charters Towers, with a Convalescent Depot at Sellheim.
At Macrossin, a United States Air Force School trained RAAF crews on Liberator bombers. The RAAF operated a base at Bedden from 1943-1947 after the US 38th Bombardment Group moved north. Situated within the Charters Towers Cemetery on Dalrymple Road, the war cemetery contains the graves of 16 soldiers and 17 airmen of the Australian Forces. Four soldiers are buried in the civil cemetery.
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