Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital

Stage Number: MBSH.03.06.29

Group: Southern

Local Study Area: Greenslopes-Coorparoo

Epoch: Late 20th Century

Street Address: Newdegate Street, Greenslopes 

Latitude & Longitude: -27.51297222,153.04655556

Time Link: 1942

Map Link: 1942

Image Time Point: 1942

Information

The Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital opened in February 1942 as the 112th Australian General Military Hospital. It was renamed as the repatriation hospital in April 1947. The facility became a university teaching hospital in 1970. When the hospital was privatised in the 1980s, the site became Australia’s first private hospital accredited as a university teaching hospital.

Citations

Kowald, Margaret. with Val Donovan, Ruth Kerr, Kay Cohen, Lyndsay Smith, and Jean Stewart. Lost Brisbane and Surrounding Areas: The Later Years. Volume 2. RHSQ. 2016 pages 120, 256

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Map References

QSA. QSA Series ID 2058 Moreton District Maps – A Series. 4 miles to the inch. Moreton District. Sheet 1. 4 miles to the inch. Survey Office, Brisbane. 634925