AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS
IN AUSTRALIA DURING WW2

visits since 27 January 2007

via Ian Jenkins

Australian Red Cross Society Badges

Australian Red Cross Badge which belonged
to John Goulevitch. Probably a post war badge.

The Australian Red Cross Society had a supply store in the Rocky Creek area on the Atherton Tablelands.

Robert Stahl, an American Guerrilla of Mindanao (AGOM) wrote about the Australian Red Cross in his article "You're No Good to Me Dead":-

The Australian Red Cross operated canteens where we could while away time with coffee, doughnuts, and dancing. In addition, they operated a rest and recreation area at Coolangatta, a seashore resort not far from Brisbane. There we could get reasonably priced meals and a bed and spend days off duty lazing about in the surf Also, the place had some very comely hostesses with whom most of us dreamed of getting lucky, while few did.

Photo:- via Ann Batten

Winifred Mary Margeson iwas a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment who worked for the Red Cross

Photo:- via Ann Batten

Winifred Mary Margeson in her Red Cross uniform

Photo:- via Ann Batten

AWM ID Number: 017476

Chelmer Convalescent Home, Brisbane, which was run by the
Australian Red Cross, 23 August 1944. It had a capacity of 73 patients.

Photo:- via Ann Batten

Women of the Australian Red Cross marching down a city street, possibly Brisbane.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I'd like to thank Ann Batten for her assistance with this web page. Her aunty Winifred Mary Margeson from Bulimba, Brisbane was a member of the Australian Red Cross during WWII.

Heaps of WW2 books available at Amazon.com

"Australia @ War"

This page first produced 27 January 2007

This page last updated 22 May 2009