The World War 2 Years on
Buderim
by Joyce Short
September 2011
by Joyce Short
September 2011
Once Japan entered the war and was so quickly and easily
heading down through Asia and the Pacific Islands towards Australia, the whole
of the Maroochy Shire found itself a giant training place for soldiers destined
to fight in New Guinea.
The lantana slopes and bush areas surrounding Buderim
Mountain became soldier camps.
After their exercises of fighting through the lantana scrub we heard
quite a few soldiers swear to go back home and dig out every trace of garden
lantana they’d had in their own gardens.
How they hated it!
Nobody could argue with the Army. One local resident had his late model utility commandeered
for Army use and it had to be delivered to Brisbane.
When a Battalion of soldiers camped in the bush, where Kunda
Park is now, a nearby house found its kitchen with a phone on the wall, taken
over as the Head Quarters of the Officers of the Battalion for the weeks that
they were there.
Ploughed ground (my Dad’s bean patch) became a target spot
for small planes to practice dropping military dispatches to a group of
soldiers on maneuvers for several days.
A light Horse Brigade chose to ride up to Buderim along the
disused tram line, cutting wire fences in their way and leaving irate farmers
to hunt up farm animals that had got out.
Civilian traveling was frowned upon and had to be very
important to be allowed, otherwise it was quite possible you would be
apprehended at some point and told to go home again.
Letters to and from soldiers were all censored. Even civilian mail was censored at
times and a letter could arrive looking like a paper doyley with pieces cut out
of it, even though you couldn’t imagine what military significance they could
ever have found in the deleted words or sentences.
Very stringent petrol rationing for private use really left
everyone grounded in his own little area.
After the war ended it took several years to gradually have
the restrictions removed. The
world emerged as a very different place and it seemed like a whole new
beginning had started. The war
certainly had been a very hefty milestone in our lives.
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