Later, the plan was changed to have a permanent section for 400 patients with a temporary section for another 200 men. The initial plan was to construct a 200-bed hospital for £250,000. Tenders for excavation of the site were called in April 1941. The land had existing sewerage facilities. Chermside Camp’s 2/1st Australian General Hospital) were later established to serve troops in training.Ī 19-acre Greenslopes site bordered by Newdegate, Peach, Nicholson and Peach Streets was selected for the hospital. Redbank, Enoggera), a larger permanent hospital was required to meet the demand for medical care of the many servicemen returning from the Middle East or Britain. Although small military field hospitals already existed in Brisbane (e.g. Windsor’s Rosemount Repatriation Hospital (established in World War I) was still in use. In 1940, the Commonwealth Government decided to establish a major military hospital in Brisbane as part of its plan to construct base hospitals in each state to cope with the expected war casualties. At war’s end it conducted medical checks for personnel prior to their demobilisation and became a repatriation hospital that catered to the medical needs of Queensland’s returned service personnel. It played an important role in caring for the military survivors of the torpedoing of the hospital ship Centaur, including Sister Nell Savage. It became the largest World War Two military hospital in Queensland.
The Greenslopes Hospital was built in 1941–42 as Brisbane’s first purpose-built, permanent military hospital.
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