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United States Army 3rd & 8th Medical Laboratories and Quartermaster Morgue
Animal Research Institute, University of Queensland School of Veterinary Science
The Animal Research Institute began as a state government Stock Experiment Station in 1909. Just prior to World War II, it was utilised by the School of Veterinary Science of the University of Queensland that was then based at Garden’s Point in the City. After the university had added modern laboratories to the site, the US Army’s 3rd Medical Laboratory (3rd Med. Lab.) requisitioned it in June 1942. This unit researched the treatment of tropical diseases, especially malaria. When 3rd Med. Lab. left the Yeerongpilly laboratories in August 1943, the 8th Medical Laboratory (8th Med. Lab.) replaced it. The 8th Med. Lab. ran an officers’ Malaria Control School and conducted laboratory tests including veterinary work. The unit left Yeerongpilly in October 1944.
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In 1909, the Queensland Government’s Department of Agriculture and Stock (later Primary Industries) opened a Stock Experiment Station at Yeerongpilly. Its building held offices and laboratories. It was renamed the Animal Health Facility in 1932. The University of Queensland’s Faculty of Veterinary Science moved to the Fairfield Road site in 1936. During 1938-40, the University added a second building containing three laboratories, a library, classrooms and an equine operating room.
Later, the US Army requisitioned the site. The 3rd Medical Laboratory unit (with assigned veterinary laboratory officers and technicians) disembarked at Brisbane on 18 June 1942. Led by Major Francis E....
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