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Lytton Camp.

The encampment at Lytton was a busy scene all day yesterday. From the small hours of the morning there were arriving men and baggage, and horses, and the hundred and one incidents attendant on pitching a camp were all gone through. The horse lines has to be arranged, tents had to be set, and culinary arrangements made. The camp this year is likely to be a model one, for all the men are taking the keenest interest, and careful attention is being paid to sanitary and other affairs. kitchen refuse it to be carefully kept covered, to prevent the advent of flies, which are always ready and willing to do their best towards causing an outbreak of fever in any army. Training and manoeuvres will go on until the 21st, when the units will break camp and once more march back to their headquarters.

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Fort Lytton began closing down as soon as the Second World War ended. However, the signal station remained operational until late 1965. The fort’s last significant defence operation was in October 1964 when the signals station was used to gather intelligence on the “Indonesian coup”. Shortly after this incident, the Fort Lytton site was handed over to the AMPOL oil company to build an oil refinery.

Whilst most of the site was transformed into oil refining and storage facilities, three parcels of land were left intact. They were the site of the colonial fort and its associated structures, Lytton Hill and its associated structures, and the site of the heavy anti-aircraft battery, containing four protected guns pits and a command post. The oil company transferred the site of the colonial fort and its associated structure to the Queensland Government in 1988, and this became Fort

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During the First World War, Fort Lytton was mainly a training facility for troops preparing to go overseas. Also, Fort Lytton had its own wharf where numerous troops embarked. The Fort’s artillery was used operationally on two occasions, firing warning shots near two ships (a Dutch steamer and a local fishing vessel) that were failing to follow wartime procedures. Immediately following the war, the Fort was used as an extension of the adjacent quarantine station by accommodating quarantined returning soldiers in tents.

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Will “Enemy” Raider Be Foiled?
12 Mile Search Beam at Fort Lytton

A searchlight which throws a beam of light 12 miles in length over the waters of the bay is one of the features of an elaborate plan for the protection of Brisbane evolved by the authorities at the militia artillery-men’s camp at Fort Lytton.
The defenders will be on the qui vive tonight, when an enemy “raider” will endeavour to dodge the powerful beam, and enter the mouth of the river.
The searchlight apparatus, which has been housed in a concrete “cubbyhole” for more than 30 years, was dismantled on Thursday by the engineers, and reassembled on a special trolly, mounted on a light tramline in the fort area. The complete plant weighs more than half a ton.

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The Courier-Mail, 11 April 1936

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Invading Army And Navy Get Hot Reception
Realistic “Battle” at Enoggera While Fort Lytton Guns Boom

The rat-tat-tat of machine-gun fire echoing through the hills and ranges of Enoggera and Ashgrove yesterday showed that the soldiers in the making at the Enoggera camp were having a taste of actual battle practice while the boom of big guns down the bay indicated that the artillery-men camped at Fort Lytton were making things warm for hostile naval craft.

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The Courtier-Mail, 14 April 1936

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