8th Australian General Hospital

First casualties from Gallipoli entering 8th Australian General Hospital Fremantle AWM HO3507

1918. Ward scene in 8th Australian General Hospital Fremantle. Credit : Army Museum of Western Australia

Brief History

Established in Fremantle on 1 Jul 1915 to service those injured or ill during training in Australia, and to assess and treat those returned from the war with queries about their ongoing health.

From January 1919 the 26th Australian Auxiliary Hospital was established on the same site to take responsibility for non surgical cases. It contained 128 bed capacity. VD cases in WA were initially housed in the Blackboy Hill Camp Hospital before being moved to Rockingham on 19 Dec 1914, and then from 1 Jan 1919 to Karrakatta. Karrakatta also housed a Details Camp where convalescents remained until they were fit for discharge or to return to Europe. Infectious disease patients were sent to the Albany District Hospital.

Auxiliary Hospitals connected to 8th AGH were:

18th Australian Auxiliary Hospital - established in Perth to treat phthisic patients before their transfer to 22 AAH Woorooloo.

19th Australian Auxiliary Hospital - established in Perth at the outbreak of war to service patients from Blackboy Hill Camp until 8th AGH was established. Later re-established at "The Rocks" Albany from October 1915 until October 1917.

20th Australian Auxiliary Hospital - established at "Biddles" Fremantle and run in conjunction with 8th AGH - 50 bed capacity.

22nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital - established in Woorooloo to handle TB and other patients with lung disease. Opened 13 Feb 1917 - 27 bed capacity.

24th Australian Auxiliary Hospital - established 4 Apr 1918 at "Stromness" in Cottesloe to deal with mental patients - 30 bed capacity.

26th Australian Auxiliary Hospital - established January 1919 at the 8th AGH to handle non surgical patients invluding malaria patients from the Middle East. 128 bed capacity.

Staff

• Inez Clare Cronin 4 - 24 Oct 1917
• Euphemia Weir Huntley Scott 24 Feb - Dec 1919

Soldier Patients by date admitted

1915

• Patrick O'Connell McKenna 4 Sep 1915 - 24 Sep 1916
• Clement Wilder Benporath ?? Oct 1915 - 15 Jun 1916
• Edward Patrick Thomas O'Brien admitted 16 Dec 1915

1916

• Frank Sugden 7 - 27 Apr 1916
• Reuben Douglas Naughton 11 Jul - 14 Aug 1916
• Walter Raymond Farnham 6 - 11 Aug 1916
• Cecil James Clark 29 Aug - 11 Sep
• Patrick O'Connell McKenna 4 - 23 Sep 1916
• James Albert Lawrence Matthews 11 - 17 Sep 1916
• John Morgan Ley 3 - 13 Oct 1916
• William Harrington Edward Watson 10 - 12 Oct 1916
• John Morgan Ley 1 - 20 Nov 1916
• Harold Hopgood Surman 20 Dec 1916 - 18 Jan 1917
• John Paterson Henderson 25 Dec 1916 - 19 Jun 1917
• Henry William Buckland 23 - 28 Dec 1916

1917

• Charles Frederick George Judd 24 Jun - 6 Sep 1917
• John Feast 26 - 27 Jun 1917
• Richard Beattie 9 - 12 Jul 1917
• John Donald Stalker 9 Jul - 6 Aug 1917
• John Hugh Jones 9 Jul - 9 Sep 1917
• Joseph Pulford 24 - 29 Jul 1917
• Harry Douglas Butcher 3 Aug - 12 Sep 1917
• Arthur Patrick Joyce 19 Aug 1917 - ?? Dec 1917
• Edward Hobson 11 - 17 Sep 1917
• William Heath 11 Sep 1917 - 8 Mar 1918
• Eric Horace Bell 13 Sep - 3 Oct 1917
• Donald Gordon Melville Huggins 14 Oct 1917 - 6 Mar 1918
• Hilton Ward Ennis MID 12 - 21 Nov 1917
• Francis Crowe 26 - 30 Nov 1917

1918

• Albert Edward Victor Byfield 18 Mar - 15 Apr 1918
• Charles Fancote 6 - 15 Apr 1918
• Samuel Buckland 9 - 30 Apr 1918
• Herbert James Reed 9 Apr - 2 Oct 1918
• Josiah James Skinner 9 Apr - 31 May 1918
• James Lang 4 - 7 May 1918
• Robert Rueben Rodgers 8 - 10 May 1918
• Thomas Henry William Denny 14 - 17 May 1918
• Thomas Carberry MM MID May 1918
• Terry de Bohun Helm 14 May - 21 Oct 1918
• Edward Hobson 9 - 17 Sep 1918
• Arnold Thorp ?? Aug 1918 - ?? Apr 1919
• Thomas Edward Raine 11 Sep 1918 - 23 Feb 1919
• Cyril Arthur Woodland 11 - 14 Sep 1918
• Wilfred George Bettenay 11 Nov 1918 - ?? Feb 1919
• William Charles Woodland 18 Nov 1918 - 31 May 1919
• George Emanuel Nettleton 31 Dec 1918 - 22 May 1919

1919

• Thomas William Moore 19 Jan - 9 Apr 1919
• Ralph Trotter 21 - 25 Jan 1919
• Stanley Thomas Marsh 24 Jan - 4 Apr 1919
• Alfred Haddy Pearse 31 Jan - 16 May 1919
• Bertram Ernest Powell 10 - 21 Feb 1919
• Ernest William George Reed 10 - 20 Feb 1919
• Ellis Shackleton 10 Feb - 6 Jun 1919
• Frederick George Golding 13 - 19 Feb 1919
• Edward Walter Tatam 17 - 23 Feb 1919
• Thomas Herbert Ludlow 19 Feb - 5 Mar 1919
• William Rawlinson 21 - 23 Feb 1919
• Leith John Newton Angelo 7 - 11 Mar 1919
• George Joseph Harris 11 Mar - 11 Apr 1919
• † Henry William Buckland 29 - 31 Mar 1919
• Victor Leo Gordon Boyle ?? Apr - 18 Sep 1919
• Robert Rueben Rodgers 8 -10 May 1919
• John Edwin Ffoulkes DCM 23 - 26 May 1919
• Lyndon Vivian Brady 25 May - 18 Jun 1919
• George Harris 16 Jun 1919 - 29 Mar 1920
• Dugald Thomas Main 24 Jul 1919 - 5 Mar 1920