Sponging the patients was very tortuous for them, so speed was the kindest way to save them from freezing.įor about eight months in the middle of World War II the 2/1 Army General Hospital was stationed not at the battlefront, not even close to the battlefront, but at Merredin, about as far away from the scene of fighting as it is possible to imagine. If it’s a cold winter’s morning you might even appreciate this nurse’s memory: You can drive or walk around the site to read signs that reveal its history and how it was laid out with nurses’ quarters, a surgery and wards. As unbelievable as it may seem, at the height of World War ll an army hospital was based not near the fighting but at the base of a granite outcrop in WA’s Wheatbelt.
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