List of Australian Army medical units in World War I

Australian Field Dressing Station during the Battle of Messines, 7 June 1917

The following is a list of Australian Army medical units in World War I.

Field Ambulance

Australian Imperial Force field ambulance personnel, 1916

1st Division (Australia)

2nd Division (Australia)

  • 5th Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
  • 6th Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
  • 7th Australian Field Ambulance

3rd Division (Australia)

  • 9th Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
  • 10th Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
  • 11th Australian Field Ambulance (South Australia)

4th Division (Australia)

  • 4th Australian Field Ambulance
  • 12th Australian Field Ambulance
  • 13th Australian Field Ambulance

5th Division (Australia)

6th Division

(Only partially formed, and was disbanded prior to completion of assembly.)

  • 16th Australian Field Ambulance
  • 17th Australian Field Ambulance

Light Horse Field Ambulance

ANZAC Mounted Division

  • 1st Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
  • 2nd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
  • 3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance (to 1916)

Australian Mounted Division

  • 3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance (from 1917)
  • 4th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
  • 5th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance

Camel Field Ambulance

  • Camel Field Ambulance

Casualty Clearing Station

  • 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station
  • 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station
  • 3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station

Stationary Hospital

  • 1st Australian Stationary Hospital (South Australia)
  • 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital (Western Australia)

Infectious Diseases Hospital

  • 1st Dermatological Hospital
  • 2nd Infectious Diseases Hospital
  • 3rd Infectious Diseases Hospital
  • 4th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Queensland)
  • 5th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Victoria)
  • 6th Infectious Diseases Hospital (South Australia)

Australian Flying Corps Hospital

  • Australian Flying Corps Hospital

Australian General Hospital

  • 1st Australian General Hospital (Queensland) – Heliopolis, Egypt January 1915 to March 1916; Rouen, France to 1918; then Sutton Veny, England[1]
  • 2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) was in Cairo in 1915.[2]
  • 3rd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) - Mudros, Greece July 1915 to January 1916; Abbassia, Egypt to October 1916; Abbeville, France from May 1917 until end of war[3]
  • 4th Australian General Hospital (New South Wales)
  • 5th Australian General Hospital (Victoria)
  • 6th Australian General Hospital (Queensland)
  • 7th Australian General Hospital (South Australia)
  • 8th Australian General Hospital (Western Australia)
  • 9th Australian General Hospital (Tasmania)
  • 10th Australian General Hospital
  • 11th Australian General Hospital (Victoria)
  • 12th Australian General Hospital (Tasmania)
  • 13th Australian General Hospital (Queensland)
  • 14th Australian General Hospital
  • 15th Australian General Hospital (South Australia)
  • 16th Australian General Hospital (Victoria)
  • 17th Australian General Hospital (Queensland)

Australian Auxiliary Hospitals

  • 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
  • 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
  • 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
  • 2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
  • 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
  • 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
  • 4th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
  • 4th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
  • 5th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
  • 6th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
  • 7th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
  • 8th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
  • 9th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
  • 10th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
  • 11th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1) (New South Wales)
  • 11th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2) (New South Wales)
  • 12th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
  • 13th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
  • 14th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
  • 15th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Victoria)
  • 16th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Victoria)
  • 17th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (South Australia)
  • 18th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (South Australia)
  • 19th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
  • 20th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
  • 21st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1) (Western Australia)
  • 21st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2) (New South Wales)
  • 22nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
  • 23rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Tasmania)
  • 24th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
  • 25th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Tasmania)
  • 26th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
  • 27th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
  • 28th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)

Sanitary Sections

  • 1st Australian Sanitary Company
  • 1st Australian Sanitary Section [Second Division]
  • 2nd Australian Sanitary Section [First Division]
  • 3rd Australian Sanitary Section (Queensland) [Third Division]
  • 4th Australian Sanitary Section [Fourth Division]
  • 5th Australian Sanitary Section [Fifth Division]
  • 6th Australian Sanitary Section – Tell El Kebir Australian Imperial Force Training Base at the Suez Canal in Egypt, later moved to England with the Australian Imperial Force Training Centre[4]
  • 7th Australian Sanitary Section [Anzac Mounted Division]
  • 8th Australian Sanitary Section [Australian Mounted Division]
  • 9th Australian Sanitary Section [Sixth Division]

Special Medical Units

  • Anzac Field Laboratory
  • Base Depot of Medical Stores

Convalescent and Command Depots

Convalescent Depot

  • 1st Australian Convalescent Depot (1)
  • 1st Australian Convalescent Depot (2)
  • 2nd Australian Convalescent Depot
  • 3rd Australian Convalescent Depot
  • 4th Australian Convalescent Depot
  • 5th Australian Convalescent Depot
  • 6th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
  • 7th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
  • 8th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)

Command Depot

  • 1st Australian Command Depot
  • 2nd Australian Command Depot
  • 3rd Australian Command Depot
  • 4th Australian Command Depot

Hospital Ships

Temporary Hospital Ships

See also

References

  1. ^ "No. 1 Australian General Hospital". Through These Lines. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  2. ^ Weatherburn, Hilary, "Irene Victoria Read (1880–1972)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 5 March 2024
  3. ^ "Through These Lines: No. 3 Australian General Hospital". throughtheselines.com.au. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Australian Commonwealth Military Forces: Medical". Australian Defence Force Academy. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
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