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. Water was one of the reasons.
For 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.
The hospital moved to Merredin in December 1942. Merredin was located well inland making it a less likely bombing target. It was a rail junction which meant that casualties could arrive from various directions. And it had an independent water supply in the form of the railway dam which would allow it to continue operating even if the enemy destroyed the Goldfields Water Supply pipeline. Water from the railway dam was pumped to a tank at the top of Merredin Peak from where it gravitated down to the hospital.
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.
The cache is a 400ml container heavily camouflaged
It is situated near the old foundations of 1 of the many old Hospital Buildings
Care is needed whilst walking, as there are hazards, and please be careful of the Bull Ants.
Please handle the cache with care, and replace exactly as found.
Room for small swaps. But bring your writing stick Congrats to Breuzeuk for FTF on 27/02/2020