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During the Second World War a unit of the RAAF was based on Dunk Island: No.27 Radio Direction Finding Station. A radar station was erected on the island in October 1942 and disbanded in December 1945. This photo shows members of the squadron stationed on Dunk during a moment of leisure, one Christmas during the early 1940s

Railway dining car staff boarding the train home at the end of their shift

Dining car staff taking a break on the Townsville-Mt Isa line

Dining car staff taking a break on the Townsville-Mt Isa line

Railway employees in uniform at Mt Isa Railway Station on the Townsville-Mt Isa line. The man on the left (Jimmy Lavell, wearing cap) was a porter; the lady in the middle (Shirley) is in the white kitchen staff uniform; the ladies either side (Zetta and Pat) are in the grey Refreshment Room uniform, and the man on the right was a fireman

The two women are wearing the Queensland Railways Dining Car uniforms; the man on the left is an off duty conductor; the man second from right is also a conductor (in uniform)

Sepia photograph of Cardwell Railway Refreshment Rooms staff, 1936, standing outside the station building.In the war years that followed, the refreshment rooms staff were called on to provide meals to numerous servicemen as the troop trains usually stopped in Cardwell

Railway employees (possibly porters) on the platform at Innisfail Railway station, 1953

Black & white photograph. Streetscape of Rankin Street, Innisfail, in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March 1918. Looking south along Rankin Street, possibly from an elevated position

Black & white photograph of the severely damaged Rechabite (RAOB) Hall, taken in the aftermath of the cyclone that made landfall on the 10th March 1918. The damaged hall is in the foreground, and views of rear of damaged buildings in the background. The Rechabite Hall was situated on what is now the southern end of Owen Street, and was next to the 'old' Joss House, which was on the corner of Owen Street and Edith Street, Innisfail