Born Wellington 22/11/1892 Died Auckland 5/6/1969 Educated at Wanganui Collegiate, Trinity College Cambridge, St Thomas's Hospital, London WW1 service with the RN; brief repatriation leave to NZ before returning to England Anaesthetist, Birmingham Hospital 1919 - 1920 Senior Anaesthetist, Birmingham Children's Hospital 1921 Visiting Anaesthetist, Wellington Hospital 1921 - 1940 (the first specialist anaesthetist in NZ) WW2 service with NZMC 8/1940 - 8/1945, mainly in Egypt, where he was SMO Maadi Camp Director of Anaesthesia, Auckland Hospital Board 1946 - 31/12/1957. Involved with the setting up of the Greenlane Hospital Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit. First President NZ Society of Anaesthetists 1948 - 1953 photograph courtesy War History collection, Alexander Turnbull LibraryObituary: NZMJ 1969 70:128 |