On a cool and stormy night in October, several members of the society attended a celebration at the Merthyr Bowls Club to recognise its 75 years.
Built next to the Limbless Soldiers’Club in Oxlade Drive, the Limbless Soldiers Bowling Club was officially opened in 1949 by the Queensland branch of the Returned Limbless Sailors and Soldiers Association (RLSSA) to provide recreational facilities for returned disabled servicemen.
The first day of play was in December 1948. In the early 1950s the clubhouse building, comprising two ex-army huts, was relocated from Camp Columbia, the United States 6th Army headquarters at Wacol during the Second World War.
The Limbless Soldiers Bowling Club was later renamed the Merthyr Bowls Club. The RSL, whichc ontinues to lease the land from Council, subleases the facilities to the Merthyr Bowls Club. In a prime location adjacent to the Brisbane River, it was recently voted as the #1 Barefoot Bowls location in Australia.
CONGRATULATIONS, MERTHYR BOWLS CLUB