Concord Hospital has several unique statues and reliefs located across the campus that celebrate and commemorate the history and heritage of the hospital.

While convalescing at the 113^th Australian General Hospital in the early 1940’s, Mr Guy Lynch sculpted a white porcelain marquette of a soldier, nurse, and a voluntary nurse’s aid. In 1998 a bronze copy of that sculpture was commissioned and donated to the Concord Repatriation General Hospital Chapel by the Concord Hospital Volunteers Auxiliary. 

It stands as a unique tribute and historical Memorial near the Chapel’s Pond and Garden of Remembrance.

Terracotta reliefs can be seen at the top of each of four large 1941 built brick buildings. Designed by Danish born artist Otto Steen, four reliefs including a nurse on the Nursing Quarters, a laundry worker on the hospital boiler house, a doctor on the Resident Medical Officers quarters, and the Concord Lion on Main Building. Each red, white and blue relief sits over a red cross emblem. 
 

The bronze statue is an original work by Dr Maryann Nicholls, a former chief haematologist at Concord Repatriation General Hospital. based on George Silk’s iconic photograph, ‘A fuzzy wuzzy angel’, taken in Papua on Christmas Day, 1942. It depicts Papuan man Raphael Oimbari assisting George Whittington, a wounded private who would die of scrub typhus six weeks after the photograph was taken. Mr Oimbari was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his support and the photograph represents the spirit of mateship and the close relationship between Australia and Papua.

Orderlies or bearers like Raphael Oimbari were essential to the Australian war effort in Papua and were affectionately known to soldiers as ‘the fuzzy wuzzy angels’. Some fought in organised units but most acted as bearers, carrying food and ammunition to the front lines and wounded soldiers back for treatment.