'Shortly after the outbreak of the second world war he joined the New Zealand Army Medical Corps and became senior surgeon to the hospital ship Oranje and made several trips to the Middle East. He was invalided out in 1944 with a lung lesion.' The Royal College of Surgeons, England, Biographical Entry, Park, Alan Edwin (1897 - 1970), Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online,
http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E006006b.htm. Accessed 17 December 2016.
Educated at Otago Boys' High School. MB ChB (NZ) 1920, FRCS (Eng) 1924, FRACS 1940
HS/HP, Wellington Hospital 1921 - 22
Postgraduate studies at the London Hospital
Honorary Surgeon, Wellington Children's Hospital 1925 - 1930
Honorary Assistant Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1930 - 1940
Senior Visiting Surgeon, Hutt Hospital 1944 - 1947
Visiting Surgeon, Tauranga Hospital 1947 - 1961
Medical Officer, Department of Health, Whāngārei, 1961
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