Wallgrove Army Base was an Australian Army

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 camp and base at Wallgrove, (renamed Eastern Creek), New South Wales

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, Australia

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The camp was utilised as a staging and training area during World War II

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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

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

Eastern Creek Raceway

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, the M4 Motorway

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 and the M7 Motorway

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 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 - February 1943
• 53rd Anti-Aircraft (Composite) Regiment - August 1943
• 2/25th Australian Infantry Battalion
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   - April 1944
• 2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion - April 1944
• 6 Machine Gun Battalion

Post-war, the 176 Air Dispatch Company was based there.