List of Australian Army medical units in World War I explained

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

Field Ambulance

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

• 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

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, France to 1918; then Sutton Veny, England^[1]
• 2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) was in Cairo in 1915.
• 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^[2]
• 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 (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)

Sanitary Sections

• 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^[3]
• 7th Australian Sanitary Section [Anzac Mounted Division]
• 8th Australian Sanitary Section [Australian Mounted Division]
• 9th Australian Sanitary Section [Sixth 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

See also

• Military history of Australia during World War I
• First Australian Imperial Force dental units

Notes and References

1. Web site: No. 1 Australian General Hospital. Through These Lines. 2020-04-20.
2. Web site: Through These Lines: No. 3 Australian General Hospital. throughtheselines.com.au. 2020-06-01.
3. Web site: Australian Commonwealth Military Forces: Medical. Australian Defence Force Academy. 2 May 2019.