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Jungara United States Army Station Hospital
116 Australian General Hospital; Malaria Research Unit
Located at Redlynch near Cairns, Jungara was designed by US engineers for 750-bed capacity and built by the Allied Works Council (AWC). The hospital contained over 140 prefabricated buildings including wards, operating theatres and staff accommodation, with the prefabricated components made in Sydney. Jungara hospital was later transferred to the Australian Army.
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The Jungara US Army Station Hospital was established at Redlynch in September 1943, and construction work was completed by 15 February 1944. In support of the vast numbers of US and Australian troops training in the vicinity of Cairns and the Atherton Tablelands, additional bed space was required. To stretch the infrastructure of the region further, the Cairns area containing a number of large staging camps, for use by troops en-route to the war in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
On the 25 March 1944, the Australian Army took over US hospital at Jungara and by mid-May the 116 Australian...
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