Territory Stories

121 Australian General Hospital

Details:

Title

121 Australian General Hospital,

Collection

WWII Military Units, HistoryNT, Second World War, 1939-1945,

Date

0000-00-00,

Location

Katherine, Alice Springs, Plymton, Gorrie,

Nation of service

Australia,

Service

Army,

Service branch

Medical,

Unit

121 Australian General Hospital,

Date arrived in NT

1942-06-25,

Date left the NT

1943-08-16,

History

121 AGH accepted its first local patients on 25 June 1942 at Katherine. An increasing number of civilians and Aborigines were admitted over the course of the war. By November 1942, there were close to 800 patients at Katherine, many had malaria. 121 AGH was replaced by 101 AGH in August 1943.,

Notes

Metadata: Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, Dates: -- Katherine, 25 June 1842 to 16 August 1943,

Language

English,

Subject

Second World War, 1939-1945, Australia, Army, AGH, Hospital, Patients, 121 Australian General Hospital,

File type

image/jpeg,

Use

No known copyright,

Copyright owner

Australian War Memorial,

License

https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/pubic-domain/pdm,

Related links

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C11433 [Australian War Memorial : Photograph 027852, Second World War, 1939-1945], http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=31882 [121 Australian General Hospital],

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847590,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/847941