Stage Number: MBSH.03.06.30
Group: Southern
Local Study Area: Greenslopes-Coorparoo
Epoch: Early 20th Century
Street Address: 55 Headfort St, Greenslopes
Latitude & Longitude: -27.51322222,153.04808333
Time Link: 1945
Map Link: 1946
Image Time Point: 1946
The War Service Commission had held this site since 1920. Atypically, the Greenslopes Military Hospital site had not come with a standard Red Cross Hut. In December 1944, Federal approval was granted to the Red Cross to build a hall, library, reading rooms, billiard room, handcrafts room workroom, storeroom & hostel to bolster patient reccuperation at this Hospital. Building fundraising was held by the Red Cross at its 307 Queen Street cafe. The hall was a venue for dances, film screenings & concerts and it was staffed by volunteer Red Cross (mainly women) workers. The adjacent hostel accommodated interstate & intrastate relatives visiting patients. Postwar, the Red Cross facilities served repatriation patients.
Discover Queensland at war Queensland World War II Historic Places website
Qimagery. Brisbane City Council Series 1946. Scale: 1:15,900.
