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The following is a list of Australian Army medical units in World War I.
Field Ambulance
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 ...
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1st Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
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2nd Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
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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 ...
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5th Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
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6th Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
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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 ...
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9th Australian Field Ambulance (New South Wales)
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10th Australian Field Ambulance (Victoria)
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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 ...
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4th Australian Field Ambulance
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12th Australian Field Ambulance
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13th Australian Field Ambulance
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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 ...
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8th Australian Field Ambulance (NSW)
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14th Australian Field Ambulance
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15th Australian Field Ambulance
6th Division
(Only partially formed, and was disbanded prior to completion of assembly.)
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16th Australian Field Ambulance
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, ...
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17th Australian Field Ambulance
17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number.
Seventeen is the sum of the first four prime numbers.
In mathematics
17 is the seventh prime number, which makes seventeen the fourth super-prime, as s ...
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
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1st Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
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 rec ...
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2nd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
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3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (disambiguation)
* Third Avenue (disambiguation)
* Hig ...
(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 ...
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3rd Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (disambiguation)
* Third Avenue (disambiguation)
* Hig ...
(from 1917)
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4th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'' (1972 film), a Sovie ...
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5th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance
Camel Field Ambulance
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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
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1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station
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2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station
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3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station
Stationary Hospital
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1st Australian Stationary Hospital (South Australia)
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2nd Australian Stationary Hospital (Western Australia)
Infectious Diseases Hospital
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1st Dermatological Hospital
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2nd Infectious Diseases Hospital
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3rd Infectious Diseases Hospital
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4th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Queensland)
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5th Infectious Diseases Hospital (Victoria)
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6th Infectious Diseases Hospital (South Australia)
Australian Flying Corps Hospital
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Australian Flying Corps Hospital
Australian General Hospital
* 1st Australian General Hospital (Queensland) –
Heliopolis, Egypt January 1915 to March 1916;
Rouen
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, 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
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1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
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1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
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2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
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2nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
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3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
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3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
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4th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1)
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4th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2)
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5th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
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6th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
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7th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
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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)
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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)
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10th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Queensland)
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11th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (1) (New South Wales)
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11th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (2) (New South Wales)
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12th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
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13th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
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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)
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15th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Victoria)
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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)
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17th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (South Australia)
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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)
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19th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
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20th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
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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)
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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 ...
(2) (New South Wales)
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22nd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
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23rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Tasmania)
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24th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Western Australia)
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25th Australian Auxiliary Hospital
Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five.
Fifth or The Fifth may refer to:
* Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth"
* Fifth column, a political term
* Fifth disease, a contagious rash th ...
(Tasmania)
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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)
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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)
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28th Australian Auxiliary Hospital (New South Wales)
Sanitary Sections
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1st Australian Sanitary Company
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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
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7th Australian Sanitary Section nzac Mounted Division*
8th Australian Sanitary Section ustralian Mounted Division*
9th Australian Sanitary Section
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 ...
ixth Division
Special Medical Units
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Anzac Field Laboratory
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Base Depot of Medical Stores
Convalescent and Command Depots
Convalescent Depot
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1st Australian Convalescent Depot (1)
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1st Australian Convalescent Depot (2)
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2nd Australian Convalescent Depot
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3rd Australian Convalescent Depot
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4th Australian Convalescent Depot
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5th Australian Convalescent Depot
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6th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
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7th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
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8th Australian Convalescent Depot (Victoria)
Command Depot
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1st Australian Command Depot
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2nd Australian Command Depot
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3rd Australian Command Depot
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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
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RMS ''Aquitania''
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SS ''Grantala''
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SS ''Ryarra''
See also
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Military history of Australia during World War I
In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediate ...
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First Australian Imperial Force dental units
The First Australian Imperial Force (AIF) was one of the first military forces to care for soldiers' teeth, and raised a large number of specialist dental units during World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbrev ...
References
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Army medical units and formations of Australia