102nd Australian General Hospital

View of 102nd AGH at Holland Park AWM photo 127025
Photo showing some wards of 102nd AGH AWM photo 127104
History
Name	102nd Australian General Hospital
Where formed	Tamworth, New South Wales
Date formed	October 1941
Capacity	2,000 patients with 600 staff
Locations	Tamworth NSW and Ekibin, and Holland Park, Brisbane

General Information

This hospital was raised in Tamworth during October 1941. In January 1942 they expanded to 600 beds. In July 1944 thye moved to Ekibin in Queensland where they remained for a time before moveing to the Holland Park Hospital after it was vacated by the US Army's 42nd General Hospital. Ekibin is adjacent to the current Greenslopes Hospital. At the Holland Park site the 102nd AGH had numerous covered wooden ramps connecting the various wards and offices on the large site. There were all the usual sections one would expect to find in a large hospital such as a Physiotherapy section and an Occupation Therapy Section.

The hospital remained open through 1946.

Patients

1942 Tamworth

• William Francis James Elliott 25 - 30 May 1942
• Frank Arthur Hodges 11 Aug - 8 Sep 1942
• Hubert James (Jim) Gale 11 - 19 Sep 1942
• Allan Cole Uren 14 - 18 Sep 1942
• John James (Jack) Trappitt 14 Nov - 17 Dec 1942
• † Jack North 24 - 28 Dec 1942
• Len Malarkey 24 Dec 1942 - 14 Jan 1943

1943 Tamworth

• John Davidson 13 Nov - 2 Dec 1943

1944 Tamworth

• Clarence Malarkey 3 - 14 Apr 1944
• George Victor Parkin 28 Apr - 17 May 1944

1944 Ekibin

• Stanley Charles Gregory 23 - 28 Aug 1941

1945 Holland Park

• Brian Bevis 25 Feb - 4 Apr 1945
• Herbert Patrick Carter 28 - 29 Jun 1945
• Jack Bell 24 Jun - 10 Jul 1945
• Allan Butcher 27 Jul - 3 Aug 1946