List of Australian Army medical units in World War I

The following is a list of Australian Army medical units in World War I.

1st Division (Australia)

1st Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
2nd Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
3rd Australian Field Ambulance

2nd Division (Australia)

5th Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
6th Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
7th Australian Field Ambulance

3rd Division (Australia)

9th Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
10th Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
11th Australian Field Ambulance (South Australia)

4th Division (Australia)

4th Australian Field Ambulance
12th Australian Field Ambulance
13th Australian Field Ambulance

5th Division (Australia)

8th Australian Field Ambulance (NSW)
14th Australian Field Ambulance
15th Australian Field Ambulance

6th Division

(Only partially formed, and was disbanded prior to completion of assembly.)

16th Australian Field Ambulance
17th Australian Field Ambulance

ANZAC Mounted Division

1st Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
2nd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance (to 1916)

Australian Mounted Division

3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance (from 1917)
4th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
5th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance

Camel Field Ambulance

Camel Field Ambulance

1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station
2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station
3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station

1st Australian Stationary Hospital (South Australia)
2nd Australian Stationary Hospital (Western Australia)

1st Dermatological Hospital
2nd Infectious Diseases Hospital
3rd Infectious Diseases Hospital
4th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Queensland)
5th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Victoria)
6th Infectious Diseases Hospital (South Australia)

Australian Flying Corps Hospital

1st Australian General Hospital (Queensland) – Heliopolis, Egypt January 1915 to March 1916; Rouen, France to 1918; then Sutton Veny, England^[1]
2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) was in Cairo in 1915.^[2]
3rd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) - Mudros, Greece July 1915 to January 1916; Abbassia, Egypt to October 1916; Abbeville, France from May 1917 until end of war^[3]
4th Australian General Hospital (New South Wales)
5th Australian General Hospital (Victoria)
6th Australian General Hospital (Queensland)
7th Australian General Hospital (South Australia)
8th Australian General Hospital (Western Australia)
9th Australian General Hospital (Tasmania)
10th Australian General Hospital
11th Australian General Hospital (Victoria)
12th Australian General Hospital (Tasmania)
13th Australian General Hospital (Queensland)
14th Australian General Hospital
15th Australian General Hospital (South Australia)
16th Australian General Hospital (Victoria)
17th Australian General Hospital (Queensland)

1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
4th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
4th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
5th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
6th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
7th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
8th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
9th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
10th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
11th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1) (New South Wales)
11th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2) (New South Wales)
12th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
13th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
14th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
15th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Victoria)
16th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Victoria)
17th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (South Australia)
18th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (South Australia)
19th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
20th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
21st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1) (Western Australia)
21st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2) (New South Wales)
22nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
23rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Tasmania)
24th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
25th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Tasmania)
26th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
27th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
28th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)

1st Australian Sanitary Company
1st Australian Sanitary Section [Second Division]
2nd Australian Sanitary Section [First Division]
3rd Australian Sanitary Section (Queensland) [Third Division]
4th Australian Sanitary Section [Fourth Division]
5th Australian Sanitary Section [Fifth Division]
6th Australian Sanitary Section – Tell El Kebir Australian Imperial Force Training Base at the Suez Canal in Egypt, later moved to England with the Australian Imperial Force Training Centre^[4]
7th Australian Sanitary Section [Anzac Mounted Division]
8th Australian Sanitary Section [Australian Mounted Division]
9th Australian Sanitary Section [Sixth Division]

Anzac Field Laboratory
Base Depot of Medical Stores

Convalescent Depot

1st Australian Convalescent Depot (1)
1st Australian Convalescent Depot (2)
2nd Australian Convalescent Depot
3rd Australian Convalescent Depot
4th Australian Convalescent Depot
5th Australian Convalescent Depot
6th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
7th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
8th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)

Command Depot

1st Australian Command Depot
2nd Australian Command Depot
3rd Australian Command Depot
4th Australian Command Depot

1st Hospital Ship A63 HMAHS Karoola
2nd Hospital Ship A61 HMAHS Kanowna
Hospital Ship A55 HMAT Kyarra – later converted to a troop transport

Temporary Hospital Ships

RMS Aquitania
SS Grantala
SS Ryarra

[1]
"No. 1 Australian General Hospital". Through These Lines. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
[2]
Weatherburn, Hilary, "Irene Victoria Read (1880–1972)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 5 March 2024
[3]
"Through These Lines: No. 3 Australian General Hospital". throughtheselines.com.au. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
[4]
"Australian Commonwealth Military Forces: Medical". Australian Defence Force Academy. Retrieved 2 May 2019.

[1] [1]
"No. 1 Australian General Hospital". Through These Lines. Retrieved 20 April 2020.

[2] [2]
Weatherburn, Hilary, "Irene Victoria Read (1880–1972)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 5 March 2024

[3] [3]
"Through These Lines: No. 3 Australian General Hospital". throughtheselines.com.au. Retrieved 1 June 2020.

[4] [4]
"Australian Commonwealth Military Forces: Medical". Australian Defence Force Academy. Retrieved 2 May 2019.

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6th Division

Camel Field Ambulance

Convalescent Depot

Command Depot

Temporary Hospital Ships

6th Division

Camel Field Ambulance

Convalescent Depot

Command Depot

Temporary Hospital Ships

Field Ambulance

Light Horse Field Ambulance

Casualty Clearing Station

Stationary Hospital

Infectious Diseases Hospital

Australian Flying Corps Hospital

Australian General Hospital

Australian Auxiliary Hospitals

Sanitary Sections

Special Medical Units

Convalescent and Command Depots

Hospital Ships

See also

References