''Wallgrove Army Base'' was an

Australian Army The Australian Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of Australia. It is a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army ...

camp and base at Wallgrove, (renamed

Eastern Creek Eastern Creek may refer to: * Eastern Creek (New South Wales), a tributary watercourse in the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment * Eastern Creek, New South Wales, a suburb in Western Sydney bisected by Eastern Creek * Sydney Motorsport Park, formerly ...

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. The camp was utilised as a staging and training area during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. After World War II, the camp was utilised as an army wireless chain and as a migrant hostel. Wallgrove Army Base was on the site of the now defunct amusement park called

Wonderland Sydney Wonderland Sydney (originally known as Australia's Wonderland) was an amusement park in Eastern Creek, Sydney, Australia. Officially opened in December 1985 by the Premier of New South Wales, Neville Wran, the park was the largest in the southe ...

. The site has recently been redeveloped to build an industrial park.

Eastern Creek Raceway Sydney Motorsport Park (known until May 2012 as Eastern Creek International Raceway) is a motorsport circuit located on Brabham Drive, Eastern Creek (40-kilometres west of the Sydney CBD), New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the Western ...

, the

M4 Motorway The M4, originally the London-South Wales Motorway, is the third longest motorway in the United Kingdom, running from west London to southwest Wales. The English section to the Severn Bridge was constructed between 1961 and 1971; the Welsh ele ...

and the M7 Motorway have also been built on or near the site.

Australian Army units based at the Wallgrove Army Base

* 21st Light Horse Regiment – 1940 * 2/19th Battalion – July 1940 * 3rd Infantry Battalion – December 1940 *

9th Australian Division The 9th Division was a division of the Australian Army that served during World War II. It was the fourth division raised for the Second Australian Imperial Force The Second Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF, or Second AIF) was the volunte ...

– February 1943 * 53rd Anti-Aircraft (Composite) Regiment – August 1943 * 2/25th Australian Infantry Battalion – April 1944 * 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion – April 1944 * 6th Machine Gun Battalion Post-war, the 176 Air Dispatch Company was based there. 5 Signal Regt. 610 Sig troop transmitting station 1960?–1977 then RAAF

References

Pacific War Wreck Database

{{Barracks Batteries Bunkers and Forts in Sydney Sydney in World War II Migrant hostels in Australia