HOLLAND PARK HOSPITAL
LOGAN ROAD, HOLLAND PARK, BRISBANE, QLD

visits since 26 May 2001

The US Army established the 3,000 bed Holland Park Hospital on a 100 acre paddock at Logan Road at Holland Park. About 300 men were involved in its construction. It took its first patients in about June 1943 when the 42nd General Hospital moved out of Stuartholme on Mount Coot-tha.

Holland Park Hospital

State Library of Queensland - Image number: 69379

View towards Logan Road, with Brodie Street at right, through grounds of the Holland Park
Military Hospital, erected in 1943. The prefabricated wards of the hospital are in the foreground.

The US Army Holland Park Hospital was located in the areas bounded by Nursery Avenue and Gorban Street, Holland Park and approximately between Seville Park and Logan Road.

After the Americans moved to New Guinea, this hospital was taken over by the 102nd Australian General Hospital who had moved out of their hospital at Ekibin.

It is believed that the Mount Gravatt Scout Group Hall was one of the huts from the Holland Park Hospital.  It was possibly the Administration building from either Unit No. 1 or Unit No. 2 of the Holland Park Hospital.

Photo: Peter Dunn 14 Oct 2006

Mount Gravatt Scout Group Hall

Photo: Peter Dunn 14 Oct 2006

Mount Gravatt Scout Group Hall

Photo: Peter Dunn 14 Oct 2006

Mount Gravatt Scout Group Hall looking towards Mount Gravatt (the hill)

Photo: Peter Dunn 14 Oct 2006

Mount Gravatt Scout Group Hall looking towards Mount Gravatt (the hill)

Photo: Peter Dunn 14 Oct 2006

Mount Gravatt Scout Group Hall looking back towards Logan Road

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I'd like to thank Ray Denning (new deceased), former President of the Mt. Gravatt District Historical Association for his assistance with this home page.

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"Australia @ War"

This page first produced 26 May 2001

This page last updated 11 March 2008