2/11th Australian General Hospital

Madang, New Guinea Wards 1, and 2. - AWM 075510
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History
Name	2/11th Australian General Hospital
Locations	El Amiriya, Egypt; Argos Greece; Alexishafen, New Guinea; Aitape, New Guinea; Madang, New Guinea

General Information

Unit was in Southport in early 1943, and then to ?? prior to going to New Guinea. The hospital embarked in Brisbane and disembarked four days later at Port Moresby. Later moves took them to Buna on the north coast of New Guinea, and then Finschhafen. At Buna they had established a fully equipped 600 bed hospital.

Two members of the unit died during their time with the unit, both to illness, one in Victoria and one in new Guinea.

Patients

El Amiriya, Egypt

• † John Hector Russell MacDonald 17 - 22 Aug 1941
• Charles Henry Walter Hansen 9 - 19 Sep 1941
• Joseph James Burrows 24 Sep - 20 Oct 1941
• William Boyd Griffiths 27 Sep - 25 Oct 1941

Warwick, Queensland

• John Patrick Whitaker 10 - 30 Dec 1942
• Francis Malarkey 23 Dec 1942 - 14 Jan 1943

Milne Bay, Papua

• Douglas John Elliott 4 - 14 Sep 1943
• Edward Ernest Wilson 20 - 22 Oct 1943
• Mervyn Roy Drummond 28 Nov - 8 Dec 1943

Aitape, New Guinea

• Thomas Malarkey 25 Jan - 8 Feb 1945
• Walter Roland Williams 27 Jan - 25 Mar 1945
• Walter Leonard Axford 4 Feb - 29 Mar 1945
• Arthur Gordon Hubbard 5 Feb - 8 Mar 1945
• Francis (George) Hicks MM 14 - 22 Mar 1945
• William George Davis 16 Apr 1945 16 - 26 Apr 1945 & 23 Jun - 3 Jul 1945
• Arthur McVeigh 11 - 31 Jul 1945
• John Henry Adams 6 - 16 Aug 1945

Individual Honours

• 23 x Mentioned in Despatches
• 1 x Royal Red cross (1st Class)