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Wooloomanata Station was a sheep station located north-north-west of Lara, Victoria,
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. Frederick William Armytage built a single storey U-plan Italianate style bluestone homestead with an intricate encircling iron verandah c 1860–63. The Australian Army hired the homestead for use as the Southern Command Training School in 1939 during World War II. In 1943, the
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hired the homestead as a pilots' and officers' mess while
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(RAAF) was forming-up with
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at Wooloomanata Aerodrome which had been constructed at the property. The Works Training Unit of the RAAF also operated from the property.


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