World War 1, Middle East, 3 Australian General Hospital, 1916
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The 3rd Australian General Hospital, left Circular Quay on the RMS Mooltan on 15 May 1915. The hospital’s staff were mainly drawn from Sydney. Reinforcements came from Victoria and South Australia.
The unit arrived in England on 27 June 1915, expecting to be posted to France. However, on 1 July they were deployed to Mudros, on the Greek island of Lemnos, to nurse the sick and injured troops fighting in the Gallipoli campaign. Lemnos was only 50 miles from the fighting, whereas the hospitals in Egypt were over 650 miles away.
With the end of the Gallipoli campaign, the hospitals on Lemnos were disbanded. and sailed from Mudros on 17 January 1916 for Egypt. 3 A.G.H. was re-established at Abbassia in Egypt in early 1916 in an old harem, where it operated for approximately eight months. The staff then operated the Kitchener War Hospital at Brighton, England from October 1916 before moving to Abbeville, France, from May 1917.
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