United States Army 42nd General Hospital

Stuartholme School

The US Army requisitioned 'Stuartholme' in late 1942. It was used by the 42nd General Hospital with new buildings for wards and barracks added to the site. The hospital specalised in malaria cases then prevalent amongst the US forces serving in the Papua and New Guinea Campaigns. In August 1943, all of the US Army nurses serving in Brisbane’s military hospitals were relocated for accommodation purposes to the convent. The site was returned to the nuns after the war ended.

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Location

Stuartholme Road

Toowong, QLD 4066

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Place type

Medical facility

History

'Stuartholme' opened as a convent and school run by the Catholic Church’s Sacred Heart Order of nuns in 1920. By 1940, enrolments had reached 36 students. On 15 July 1942, a survey of the site and facilities of 'Stuartholme' was conducted by Surveying and Property Officer J.B. Payne of the Commonwealth Government’s Department of the Interior’s Survey & Property Section’s Works & Services Branch (Qld). The survey revealed that a site contained a large, brick convent, a gazebo, 3 tennis courts, a sports ground, 3 cultivated fields and a small cemetery, that was to be requisitioned by the US Army...

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