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World War 1, Middle East, No 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Australian Army Medical Corps, BRICK, 1915

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1915

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"Treasured" - World War 1 Photo Portraits - Identified

Overview

Two Medical Corps Senior Non Commissioned Officers, one is Warrant Officer C Brick

Historical information

1210 Warrant Officer Charles Wesley Brick was employed as an Orderly at the Old Men's Home, Claremont when he enlisted on 10 September 1914. He embarked on HMAT A55 Kyarra on 14 December 1914 and returned on 4 June 1919. Mentioned in Despatches Commonwealth Gazette No 174, 11 October 1917.

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cwa-org-32-P1979.392.1a

Item type

Photographs

Themes

War and Conflict
Medicine & Health
War and Conflict > World War 1

Contextual Information

HMAT Kyarra (A55) was built in 1903 for the Australian United Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. The Kyarra was requisitioned and converted into a hospital ship in November 1914. In March 1915 the Kyarra was converted into a troop transport. After being released from Commonwealth control in January 1918, the Kyarra was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the English Channel near Swanage on 26 May 1918.
Formed in Western Australia in August 1914, the initial staff departed Fremantle aboard HMAT A55 Kyarra on 4 Dec 1914. Originally located at Mena Camp in Egypt in Jan 1915, where it was concerned with the treatment of venereal diseases. The 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital moved to East Mudros on the island of Lemnos in June 1915.
With ‘the rush of sick’ from Gallipoli, an ‘eleventh-hour’ effort was made to develop Lemnos as an intermediate military medical base. As part of that reorganisation, 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital was moved to West Mudros, landing on 4 August.
By August 13th it was treating 763 patients. By September/October 1915, the 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital occupied sixty large marquee-tents, and had 1,200 beds and 25 nursing sisters.
When the Peninsula was evacuated, 2nd Australian Stationary Hospital was transferred to Tel-el Kebir in the Canal Zone. During August 1916 the hospital moved to Port Said where it provided general medical services until 19 Nov 1916 when it moved to Mahamdrya, remaining there until it relocated yet again to El Arish on 10 Mar 1917. Its next location was Moascar, arriving there on 27 Aug 1917. Here it received VD patients as well as casualties and general illnesses. On 15 Jun 1919, 1 officer and 71 other ranks, the last of the 2nd Stationary Hospital staff in Egypt, entrained for Kantara where they boarded SS Essex for Australia.

Year

1915

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