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3rd Australian General Hospital (3AGH) Lemnos 1915 |
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British wounded convalescing at a base hospital, June 1917 IWM Q 2339 |
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| Brighton Vic. 25 May 1943. The
exterior of Anzac Hostel,
previously "Kamesburgh", a property the government purchased in
November 1918 to establish a home for the care of totally and permanently
incapacitated men.
Their disability was due to war service and they required nursing care but no active medical or surgical treatment. To purchase the property the government used part of a very generous donation of 25000 pounds from the Baillieu brothers; William Lawrence (1859-1936), Edward Lloyd (1867-1939), Arthur Sydney (1872-1943), Richard Percy Clive (1874-1941), Norman Horace (1878-1955), and Captain Maurice Howard Lawrence (1883-1961), all prominent Melbourne businessmen. After the essential building modifications the Red Cross, along with the nursing staff, undertook the cleaning of the building and preparations for receiving patients. At the time Anzac Hostel opened on 5 July 1919, it had a capacity of twenty-five beds and employed a seven nurses under the charge of Matron Catherine Munro. The Australian Red Cross Society continued to contribute medical comforts and amenities to the Hostel until it closed on 30 June 1995. The original building is now used as a school and a new Anzac Hostel was built on the property's grounds. It was officially opened on 27 July 1998. |
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| Nui Dat, South Vietnam, c. 1970. The 8th Field Ambulance, where a heli-ambulance was stationed on immediate standby 24 hours a day, ready to pick up wounded soldiers from the field. The crew's quarters are in the left-hand hut behind the helipad and the helicopter. (Donor - I. Leslie). | |
