Children's homes operated/managed by Red Cross
Berida Junior Red Cross Home, NSW
Years of operation: 1951–74
Type of care: Temporary care (with school) for school aged children whose families were experiencing difficulties. Girls (1950) joined by boys (1972).
Available records: Patchy admission records. Small quantity of photographs of the house and grounds c 1930-1940. Summary references and photographs of grounds in Annual Reports.
Glen Mervyn House, Randwick, NSW
Years of operation: 1973 to present
Type of care: Initially girls and younger boys. From 1993 Young Parent’s Program day centre.
Available records: Some admission records 1973-2010. Small quantity more detailed records.
Eleanor Mackinnon Home, NSW
Years of operation: 1945–1997
Type of care: Residential program for boys – 5 to 12 years 1951 then boys and girls 5 to 8 years 1987–1997.
Available records: Some admission records 1950-1994. Small number of applications 1992-1994. Small number social work reports.
Junior Red Cross Home, Ramsgate, NSW
Years of operation: 1923–1928
Type of care: Seaside holiday home for girls. Program transferred to Cudgelo (opposite) in 1928
Available records: No records available.
Junior Red Cross Home, Ramsgate, NSW
Years of operation: 1925–1951
Type of care: Seaside preventorium for boys.
Available records: No records available.
Cudgelo Junior Red Cross Home, Ramsgate, NSW
Years of operation: 1928–1951
Type of care: Seaside holiday home for girls, accommodating 15. Program transferred to Eleanor Mackinnon Memorial Home in 1951.
Available records: No records available.
Juong Red Cross home, Springwood, NSW
Years of operation: 1925-1944
Type of care: For sons of ex-servicemen, particularly tuberculosis affected families, accommodating approx. 15. Closed 1945 and program transferred to Kippilaw Red Cross Home.
Available records: No records available.
Kippilaw Red Cross home, NSW
Years of operation: 1940–1960
Type of care: For boys from tuberculosis affected families.
Available records: No records available.
Shuna, Leura, NSW
Years of operation: 1924–1951
Type of care: For daughters of ex-servicemen from tuberculosis affected families, accommodated approx 20.
Available records: No records available.
Belltrees, Scone, NSW
Years of operation: 1942–1943
Type of care: Boys.
Available records: No records available.
Wongala, Turramurra, NSW
Years of operation: 1946–1952
Type of care: Boys.
Available records: No records available.
Linton, Yass, NSW
Years of operation: 1943–1943
Type of care: Girls.
Available records: No records available.
Junior Red Cross Home, Margate, QLD
Years of operation: 1945–1975
Type of care: Home for convalescing children and emergency care while mothers were in hospital. In 1945 holiday accommodation offered to children of returning prisoners of war. Possible accommodation of children awaiting foster care – details not known.
Available records: No records available.
Walter T Robertson Red Cross Convalescent Home, Toowoomba, QLD
Years of operation: 1943–1949
Type of care: In 1945 holiday accommodation offered to children of returning prisoners of war.
Available records: No records available
Dunant House, Brompton, SA
Years of operation: 1970–1995
Type of care: Temporary Youth Housing
Available records: No records available.
Junior Red Cross Home, Glenelg, SA
- (incorporating Junior Red Cross Home, Henley Beach 1933-1946;
- Lady Hore-Ruthven Junior Red Cross Home, Henley Beach 19456-1959;
- Lady Norrie Red Cross Children’s Home 1947-1959)
Years of operation: 1959-68
Type of care: Convalescent Home for up to 35 children recuperating from illness or in need of emergency accommodation.
Available records: Admission Registers. Some resident details held in management committee minutes 1925-1935. Some scrap books and photographs.
Welfare House, VIC
Years of operation: 1945/46–1952
Type of care: Initially for hospitalised mothers and then for mothers and children travelling from interstate for polio or cerebral palsy treatment.
Available records: No records available.
Kooringa, Malvern, VIC, later Lady Dugan Home.
Years of operation: 1945/46–1970
Type of care: Convalescent ex-service women, then convalescent mothers and babies, then ex-servicemen’s children generally as a result of the mothers being hospitalised.
Available records: No records available.
Lady Lawley Cottage, WA
Years of operation: 1945-2020
Type of care: Disability accommodation, respite services and day centre
Available records: Admission Registers. Some recent records available. Minutes of management committees 1978-1989. Quantity of photographs of buildings, residents and services provided, not all identified.