135TH MEDICAL REGIMENT, US ARMY
IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2

visits since 24 September 2000

"B" Company of the 135th Medical Regiment, US Army established a Convalescent Hospital in Armstrong's Paddock in Townsville on 23 April 1942.

Bill Bentson told me that St. Hilda's Girl School at Southport, Queensland was used for a short time by the 135th Medical Regiment.

"C" Company of the 135th Medical Regiment set up a Convalescent Hospital at Major's Creek, about 14 miles east of Woodstock.

A Detachment of "H" Company, 135th US Medical Regiment provided medical services at Livingstone Airfield in the Northern Territory.

An APO list that I have shows the following units of the 135th Medical Regiment located at Birdum in the Northern Territory in June 1942:-

135th Medical Regiment
   - Hq & Serv Co  
    - Hq Det 3rd Bn 
    - Co's A, D, I, H

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This page first produced 17 July 1998

This page last updated 15 October 2006