Cooinda Salvation Army Home for Boys

• Industrial School for Boys (20 November 1922 - 1942)
• Boys' Home, Washpool (1942 - 1945)
• Boys' Home, Indooroopilly (1946 - 1968)
• Cooinda Salvation Army Home for Boys (1968 – September 1969)
  • Alkira, Salvation Army Home for Boys (September 1969 - 1983)

Run by

• The Salvation Army Australia Eastern Territory (1921 - 2018)

Related Events

• Case Study 05: The Salvation Army boys' homes, Australian Eastern Territory, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2014)

This page was written by Lee Butterworth, last updated 15 February 2023. Sources used to create this entry:

• Department of Families, Missing pieces: information to assist former residents of children's institutions to access records, 2001 View Publication Details
• Survey Office, Department of Public Lands, Brisbane, (1962). 'Queensland Twenty Chain Series: Map 2520' [cartographic material]. Retrieved from https://gisservices.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/directories/historicalscans/cad_scans/cad-map-20chain-queensland-sh2520-1962.jpg (accessed October 2019)

• Biddy, Paul, Salvation Army abuse at 'severe end' of the scale, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 January 2014. View Publication Details
• Opening Submissions of Counsel Assisting: Case Study 05: The Salvation Army boys' homes, Australian Eastern Territory, January 2014, 28 January 2014. View Publication Details

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Records

• Salvation Army Australia, Records of Homes in the former Eastern Territory (c. 1891 - 1990s)