No. 1 Medical Receiving Station RAAF

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No. 1 Medical Receiving Station (1MRS) was a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) field hospital unit during World War II.

Royal Australian Air Force Air warfare branch of Australias armed forces

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). It operates the majority of the ADF's fixed wing aircraft, although both the Australian Army and Royal Australian Navy also operate aircraft in various roles. It directly continues the traditions of the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), formed on 22 October 1912. The RAAF provides support across a spectrum of operations such as air superiority, precision strikes, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, air mobility, space surveillance, and humanitarian support.

Field hospital small mobile medical unit, or mini hospital, that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site

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1MRS was formed at Daly Waters, Northern Territory, on 23 March 1942. The field hospital was constructed near 5 Mile Water Hole.

Daly Waters, Northern Territory Town in the Northern Territory, Australia

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On 14 September 1942 the unit moved to a field hospital at Coomalie Creek. The first such hospital to be established and operated by an American unit in the South West Pacific Area, it had been constructed by elements of the 135th Medical Regiment of the U.S. Army, which had recently moved to Birdum.

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The South West Pacific theatre, during World War II, was a major theatre of the war between the Allies and the Axis. It included the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Australia and its mandate Territory of New Guinea and the western part of the Solomon Islands. This area was defined by the Allied powers' South West Pacific Area (SWPA) command.

Birdum, Northern Territory Suburb of Roper Gulf Region, the Northern Territory, Australia


Birdum is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about 493 kilometres (306 mi) south of the territory capital of Darwin.

During an air raid at around midnight on 13 August 1943, Japanese planes dropped 26 bombs within the hospital grounds, however there were no casualties at 1MRS.

1MRS was disbanded on 6 April 1946.

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