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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.
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Discover Queensland at war Queensland World War II Historic Places website
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Map References
Qimagery. Brisbane City Council Series 1946. Scale: 1:15,900.