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2/8th Australian Special Hospital
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History
Name 2/8th Australian Special Hospital
Where formed Enoggera, Queensland
Date formed August 1940
Capacity 200 beds
Locations Enoggera; Gaza Ridge; Kangaroo Point (Qld); Buna (PNG), Lae; Jacquniot Bay, New Briain.

General Information

Raised at ENoggera in Queensland during August 1940, they left for the Middle East a month later. On arrival they moved to Gaza Ridge in Palestine, remaining there until they returned to Australia in January 1943. WHile there they formed up the 2/14th Special Hospital in September 1941 for service in Syria.


Back in Australia, in September 1943 they were restructured as the 2/8th Australian General Hospital.


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