Born Rotorua 3 Oct 1893 Died Tripoli 12 Jun 1943
Educated at Wanganui Collegiate, Otago University In 1914, when a medical student, he joined the NZMC and saw action in Gallipoli He then returned to NZ to complete his medical studies In 1917, he went to France as a MO with an Artillery Unit Postgraduate studies in England 1918 - 1921 Practised in Hamilton 1921 - 1927 Postgraduate studies in USA 1927, where he held a Rockefeller Scholarship at the Children's Hospital in Boston. Also travelled to England and Europe. On return to NZ, set up practice as a children's specialist in Wellington Senior Visiting Physician, Wellington Children's Hospital 1934 - 1939 Enlisted at the beginning of WW2, and saw action in the Middle East. Died of typhus infection. photograph courtesy Wellington Hospital Paediatric DepartmentObituary: NZMJ 1943 42:181 |