118th Australian General Hospital

New Nurses quarters in Rabaul AWM 098417
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History
Name	118th Australian General Hospital
Where formed	Northam
Date formed	1941
Capacity	1,000 beds
Locations	Northam and in late 1945 Rabaul, New Britain.

General Information

Formed at Northam in July 1941, it was located in the town rather than at the Army camp. It was expanded to 800 beds in January 1942. With the decrease in troop numbers in Western Australia once the threat of invasion had passed, the unit left for NSW in March 1945. Here they assisted the 101st Australian General Hospital at Herne Bay (Riverwood NSW).

The 118th Australian General Hospital was redeployed to New Guinea, going first to Wewak, and then to Jacquinot Bay on New Britain. Withthe surrender of Japanese forces, the hospital moved to Rabual in September 1945.

Staff

• Bernard (Jim) Johnson 1 Jul 1941 - 15 Nov 1944
• Alfred (Henry) Martin 25 Feb 1943 - 10 Apr 1944
• Mervyn (Merv) James Rose 26 Apr - 16 May 1943
• Winifred Frances Thompson 10 May - 6 Jun 1943
• Alan Gordon Buckingham 19 mar 1943 - 14 Jun 1946
• Joan Lucien Collins 7 Jun 1943 - 17 Jun 1944
• Mary Evelyn Grace Hynes 26 Jan 1944 - 21 May 1945 - Driver
• Edith Marion Rymer 26 Jan 1944 - 9 Feb 1945 - Driver
• Alan Gordon Buckingham 1945 on
• Mary Rose Foxlow Watkins 15 Mar 1943 - 4 Aug 1944
• Joan Lucien Collins 7 Jun 1943 - 17 Jun 1944

Patients

1941

• Raymond Victor Clough 31 Oct - 7 Nov 1941
• Joseph Reginald Layton 12 - 19 Nov 1941

1942

• Stephen Charles Southern 11 - 19 Jan 1942
• Frederick Arthur Nicholls 7 - 8 Apr 1942
• William Albert Nicholls 21 - 29 Apr 1942
• Arthur (George) Candish 4 Jun - 6 Jul 1942
• Joseph Huntley Ball 25 Jul -11 Sep 1942
• Douglas George Edgar Alexander 26 Aug - 6 Sep 1942
• Charles John Sanford 14 Sep - ?? Oct 1942
• John Ernest Law-Davis 10 - 29 Oct 1942
• Claude Raymond Anderson 19 Oct 1942 - 3 Jun 1943
• John Justin McCarthy 23 Oct - 24 Oct 1942
• Joseph L Coyle 30 Oct - 2 Nov 1942
• Edward John Murphy 18 Nov 1942 - 23 Jan 1943 & 13 Mar - 1 Jun 1943 & 29 Jul - 13 Aug 1943
• Victor Henry Mead 18 Dec 1942 to 21 Jan 1943

1943

• Robert Hynes 4 - 12 May 1943 & 25 Jun - 17 Jul 1943 & 28 Jul - 25 Oct 1943
• Winifred Frances Thompson 10 May - 6 Jun 1943*
• Antonio Del Borrello 8 - 16 Jun 1943
• Mary Rose Foxlow Watkins 21 Jun - 19 Jul 1943 ; 4 - 9 Feb 1944 ; and 4 - 27 May 1944
• Herbert Harold White 7 Jul - 17 Sep 1944
• Stefano Alberti 20 Jul - 2 Aug 1943
• Miran Radovanovic 27 Jul - 13 Aug 1943 & 24 - 29 Sep 1943
• Norman Henry Napier Fowler 14 Sep - 4 Oct 1943
• William Francis James Elliott 24 Sep - 18 Oct 1943
• Norman Stanley Cosh 1 - 16 Nov 1943
• Douglas John Elliott 26 Nov - 8 Dec 1943

1944

• Reginald James Bollard 18 Jan - 16 Feb 1944
• Leslie George Harden 21 - 28 Jan 1944
• Lancelot (Lance) William Cornell 28 Jan - 26 Feb 1944
• Arthur Lloyd Brockwell 4 Feb - 1 Mar 1944
• James Henry Clarke 3 - 14 Mar 1944 & 12 - 19 May 1944
• Roy Cincinatus Anderson 3 - 27 Mar 1944
• Harry Alfred Curtis 9 - 29 Mar 1944
• William Leslie Cucel 9 Mar - 3 May 1944 & 1 - 20 Jun 1944
• Keith Butcher 21 Mar - 29 Apr 1944
• Richard Barrett 24 Mar - 11 Apr 1944
• George Gould Elworthy 24 Mar - 8 Jun 1944
• Ralph Godfrey 7 - 28 Apr 1944
• Edwin Reed Marshall 21 Apr - 1 May 1944
• Bertie Alfred Holmes 29 Apr - 24 Jul 1944
• Maurice Weinbren 5 - 13 May 1944 & 1 Sep - 22 Nov 1944
• John Ernest Law-Davis 8 - 24 May 1944
• Mervyn (Merv) James Rose 16 - 21 Jun 1944
• Joseph Slavko Marian 16 Jun - 16 Aug 1944
• Edward Arthur Sewell 27 Jun - 10 Jul 1944
• George Gould Elworthy 6 - 10 Jul 1944
• James Sydney Truscott 14 Jul - 22 Sep 1944
• John Hartley Craddon 1 - 13 Sep 1944

1945

• Oliver Benson Sharpe 5 Jan - 5 Feb 1945