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HAILES, WILLIAM ALLAN. 1909.
S.C.; M.B., B.S.; first class in Chem. I., in Physiology, and in finals first class in Medicine (including exhibition and equal first for Clinical Med. Prize), in Surgery, and in Obstetrics and Gynaecology; cricket blue.
A.A.M.C., Capt. June 1915; 4th F.A. Bde.; to 20th Btn. November 1916; Major January 1917; to No. 1 A.G.H. February 1918; to No. 1 Team from No. 1 A.G.H. for C.C.S. work August 1918. Egypt, France, England. Awarded D.S.O. 26.11.17. Took F.R.C.S. (England). Returned 16.3.20.
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His attitudes towards fostering the young and the place of apprenticeship as opposed to 'teaching' are well set out in his George Adlington Syme Oration (1947). It was a thesis he had scrupulously applied as censor-in-chief (1943) and as councillor (from 1944) of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.