Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop passed away on this day in 1993. Perhaps Australias most well known veteran of the Second World War, Colonel Dunlop graduated from Melbourne University as a Master of Surgery in 1937. Dunlop served in the Greek and Crete Campaigns with the 2/2nd Casualty Clearing Station. He was later a senior surgeon in Tobruk and commander of No. 1 Allied General Hospital at Bandung. As a POW, he worked as a medical officer on the Burma Thailand railway. He was admired foremost for his medical and welfare work with Australian prisoners of the Japanese. A statue of Dunlop is located in Kings Domain, just north of the Shrine.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000
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