105th Australian Military Hospital
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General Information
During June 1940 the South Australian government agreed to build a new Army hospital, that after hostilities ceased would be a repatriation hospital. Using wartime emergency powers, Cudmore House and 14 adjacent hectares was obtained and used as a temporary HQ. Building work commenced in January 1942 with the site formally handed over to the Army. A month later its first patient was admitted with tents and temporary huts used. The last tent was removed in late 1944 with all patients then in completed buildings.
The facility was used as a repatriation hospital post war until the Commonwealth Government divested itself of all repatriation hospitals in the mid 1990s. Taken over by the SA government, it was closed in November 2017.
Staff
Patients
Army
- Harry Alfred Curtis ?? - 20 May 1942
- Clarence Malarkey 2 May - 2 Jun 1944
- Joseph Logan 9 Sep - 11 Oct 1943
- Arthur McVeigh 23 Nov 1944 - 14 Jan 1945 & 19 - 24 Feb 1945
- Allan Edmund Young 4 - 30 Jul 1945 & 6 Aug 1945
RAAF
- Francis Victor Coyle 10 - 12 Oct 1942
- Dulcie May Faulkner 28 - 30 Jan 1943