Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

ADELAIDE  5000

MEMORIAL: Building, Cheer Up Hut          

LOCATION: West of King William Road, originally behind the site of the Adelaide Swimming Complex, to the east of the Adelaide Railway Station. Access was also gained along Railway Road past the eastern entrance to the Adelaide Railway Station.  

ORIENTATION: West

DESCRIPTION: The Cheer Up Society Hut in Adelaide was one of many located in the Adelaide suburbs and rural South Australia. The Cheer Up Society was an organization hosted by women who provided a site where servicemen could take recreation leave, have meals and be entertained with dances, sing-a-longs and concerts.

The Cheer Up Hut was dismantled after the cessation of hostilities and in the most part relocated to Barmera as the Lady Weigall Hospital in 1922; it became so architecturally degraded that it was eventually replaced by the Barmera District Hospital in 1969. The Cheer Up Hut was sited adjacent to the now demolished ANZAC Arch.

DEMOLISHED: Relocated to Barmera

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS/DATE: 'Cheer Up' book by Frederick Mills 1920. Plaque photograph courtesy Rob Fitzgerald DVA. Black and white photographs, Authors collection.