Mambourin RAAF Gunnery Range
Bulban Road MAMBOURIN, WYNDHAM CITY
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Statement of Significance
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Veterans Description for Public
Mambourin RAAF Gunnery Range - Veterans Description for Public
This site, believed to have been used as a gunnery range during World War II, is on a private property on Bulban Road in Mambourin. In the years leading up to World War II there were no buildings on this site, its relative isolation from populated areas and its close proximity to the former Manor Station would have made it a suitable and convenient place for a military facility. It was one of several areas in the environs of the RAAF bases at Point Cook and Laverton that was used by the air force. There is evidence of large craters, possibly from bombing, visible from Live Bomb Range Road, but observers' huts and other structures associated with the gunnery range are no longer visible. There are the remnants of a timber frame of a railway carriage on the site near the corner of Balls and Bulban Roads.
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Mambourin RAAF Gunnery RangeVic. War Heritage Inventory
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