Sutton, Harvey

 Person: id 4148
University connections
USydUMelb
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World War I
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Family name
Sutton
Given name(s)
Harvey
Initials
H.S.
Honorific
Prof.
Gender
Male
Start date
1898
Education notes
Beaney Scholarship in Pathology
Rhodes Scholarship for Victoria, New College Oxford (1905)
Survived
Survived WWI
OCRd book entry or other narrative
O.B.E., M.D., Ch.B., D.P.H. (Melb.), B.Sc. (Oxon.), F.R.A.C.P., F.R.San.I, Director of School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and Professor of Preventive Medicine : Major, A.A.M.C., A.I.F., Egypt and Palestine. Enlisting 12th December, 1915, and sailing 12th March, 1916, joined No. 2 Australian Stationary Hospital, Tel-el-Kebir, 12th April. Was appointed O.C. 7th Sanitary Section, Anzac Mounted Division 18th June, invalided from Maraket to No. 14 A.G.H., Cairo, 6th September and on leave to England from 3rd October to 30th December. Served at Romani, Rafa, Gaza I and II, Amman, Es Salt and final Trans-Jordan campaign. Put in charge of Anzac Clearing Station 18th September, 1918. Became D.A.D.M.S. Anzac Mounted Division at Kantara from 27th April to 3rd July, 1919. Promoted Major, 11th February, 1919. Awarded O.B.E. in December, 1919, and Mentioned in Despatches. A.M.F. : Assistant Director of Hygiene, 2nd District Base, Sydney, 1921-29. Rhodes Scholar. Early education at St. Andrew's College, Bendigo. Later at Trinity College, Melbourne.
Year commenced - MELBOURNE UNI ONLY
1898
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Parental occupation
Head Warder
Narrative
From UniMelb RoAS.
St. Andrew's Coll., Bendigo; Trinity; M.D., B.S.; Rhodes Scholar 1905; B.Sc. (Oxford) 1908; Resident and Senior Resident Children's Hospital 1903-5, Resident M.O. Charing Cross Hospital 1908, School Medical Officer, Education Department Vict. 1909-19, Medical Tutor Trinity 1909-15; athletics blue, 1st lacrosse, 2nd XI., College boat, cricket, athletics, football, half mile Univ. record 1900, Australasian and Vic. half-mile record 1902, Vic. mile record 1903.
12.12.15, Capt. A.A.M.C. rfts.; 2nd A.S.H. Tel-el-Kebir; O.C. 7th San. Sect. Anzac Mounted Div. June 1916 - 7.8.19; T/Major 14.2.19; D.A.D.M.S. Anzac Mtd. Div. 2.3.19; Sinai, Palestine, Moab, Delta; evac- uated sick one month (September) 1917. Despatches December 1917 and March 1919; O.B.E. (Mil.) December 1919. Demob. 29.9.19.
ADB Entry ID
8721
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Yes
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