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

Field Ambulance

Australian Imperial Force Ambulance, 1916

1st Division (Australia) The 1st Division is headquartered in Enoggera, a suburb of Brisbane. The division was first formed in 1914 for service during World War I as a part of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). It was initially part of the Australian and New Zealand ...

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

2nd Division (Australia) The 2nd Division of the Australian Army commands all the Reserve brigades in Australia. These are the 4th in Victoria, the 5th in New South Wales, the 9th in South Australia and Tasmania, the 11th in Queensland, the 13th in Western Australi ...

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

3rd Division (Australia) The 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army. Existing during various periods between 1916 and 1991, it is considered the "longest serving Australian Army division". It was first formed during World War I, as an infantry div ...

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

4th Division (Australia) The Australian 4th Division was formed in the First World War during the expansion of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) infantry brigades in February 1916. In addition to the experienced 4th Brigade (previously in the original New Zealand ...

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

5th Division (Australia) The 5th Division was an infantry Division (military), division of the Australian Army which served during the First World War, First and Second World Wars. The division was formed in February 1916 as part of the expansion of the First Australian ...

* 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

Light Horse Field Ambulance A light horse field ambulance was an Australian World War I military unit whose purpose was to provide medical transport and aid to the wounded and sick soldiers of an Australian Light Horse brigade. Typically a Lieutenant Colonel commanded each ...

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 The Australian Mounted Division originally formed as the Imperial Mounted Division in January 1917, was a mounted infantry, light horse and yeomanry division. The division was formed in Egypt, and along with the Anzac Mounted Division formed pa ...

* 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 A camel (from: la, camelus and grc-gre, κάμηλος (''kamēlos'') from Semitic languages, Hebrew or Phoenician: גָמָל ''gāmāl''.) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus ''Camelus'' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "hum ...

Casualty Clearing Station

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

Stationary Hospital

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

Infectious Diseases Hospital

* 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

* Australian Flying Corps Hospital

Australian General Hospital

* 1st Australian General Hospital (Queensland) – Heliopolis, Egypt January 1915 to March 1916;

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

, France to 1918; then

Sutton Veny Sutton Veny is a village and civil parish in the Wylye valley, to the southeast of the town of Warminster in Wiltshire, England; the village is about from Warminster town centre. 'Sutton' means 'south farmstead' in relation to Norton Bavant, on ...

, England * 2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) * 3rd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) - Mudros, Greece July 1915 to January 1916; Abbassia, Egypt to October 1916;

Abbeville, France Abbeville (, vls, Abbekerke, pcd, Advile) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of ...

from May 1917 until end of war * 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)

Australian Auxiliary Hospitals

* 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 8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...

(Queensland) *

9th Australian Auxiliary Hospital 9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...

(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 14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 and preceding 15. In relation to the word "four" ( 4), 14 is spelled "fourteen". In mathematics * 14 is a composite number. * 14 is a square pyramidal number. * 14 is a stella octangula number ...

(New South Wales) * 15th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Victoria) *

16th Australian Auxiliary Hospital 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...

(Victoria) * 17th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (South Australia) *

18th Australian Auxiliary Hospital 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19. In mathematics * Eighteen is a composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. ...

(South Australia) * 19th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia) * 20th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia) *

21st Australian Auxiliary Hospital First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1). First or 1st may also refer to: *World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement Arts and media Music * 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...

(1) (Western Australia) *

(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 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

(Western Australia) *

27th Australian Auxiliary Hospital 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, ...

(Queensland) * 28th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)

Sanitary Sections

* 1st Australian Sanitary Company * 1st Australian Sanitary Section econd Division* 2nd Australian Sanitary Section irst Division* 3rd Australian Sanitary Section (Queensland) hird Division* 4th Australian Sanitary Section ourth Division* 5th Australian Sanitary Section ifth Division* 6th Australian Sanitary Section –

Tell El Kebir Tell El Kebir ( ar, التل الكبير lit."the great mound") is 110 km north-north-east of Cairo and 75 kilometres south of Port Said on the edge of the Egyptian desert at the altitude of 29 m. Administratively, it is a part of the Isma ...

Australian Imperial Force Training Base at the Suez Canal in Egypt, later moved to England with the Australian Imperial Force Training Centre * 7th Australian Sanitary Section nzac Mounted Division* 8th Australian Sanitary Section ustralian Mounted Division* 9th Australian Sanitary Section ixth Division

Special Medical Units

* Anzac Field Laboratory * Base Depot of Medical Stores

Convalescent and Command Depots

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

Hospital Ships

* 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''

References

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Army medical units and formations of Australia