Author: Ken Gray
Editors: Margaret Remilton, Rhonda Jarvis, and Diane Bull.
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This was utterly incongruous. Who could imagine a war reaching Mission Beach? One of the most peaceful places on the planet, nestled in ancient rainforests and cradled safely by the Great Barrier Reef. Could battleships and bombers step in and take over these beautiful beaches and islands?
Author: Ken Gray
Editors: Margaret Remilton, Rhonda Jarvis, and Diane Bull.
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When war broke out in 1914, the remote coastal settlement of Clump Point (Mission Beach) seemed worlds away from the European battlefields. Yet this small community, with just 36 electors on the 1915 electoral roll, would send four of its men to serve King and country.
by Ken Gray
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Syd Harris was a soldier with a dream to have a tropical horticultural plantation at Mission Beach north Queensland on a beachfront property he acquired before the war.
For the full story of the war at Mission Beach there is an eBook, War and Beach; by Ken Gray, Draft2Digital, 2020. It is a 154-page history that relates all the WWII events in Mission Beach.
Author: Ken Gray
Editors: Chris Forbes & Diane Bull
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This Sketch is about events in the Mission Beach district during World War II.
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