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MATHISON, GORDON CLUNES McKAY. 1901.
Queen's; Tutor of Ormond 1907; M.D., B.S. Melb., D.Sc. Lond.; 1st class and exhibition in Physiology in 2nd and 3rd years; in finals 1st class and divided scholarship in Medicine, 1st class in Surgery, 2nd class in Gynaecology; Univ. Scholar and Demonstrator in Physiology 1907; Demonstrator in Physiology at St. Mary's Hospital , London, 1908; Sharpey Scholar in University College, London, 1909; Beit Memorial Research Fellow 1910; author of numerous research papers. After work in London and Freiburg returned, and in 1914 was appointed to the newly-created position in Melbourne Hospital, afterwards to be called Directorship of the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute. Football blue.
August 1914, A.A.M.C., Capt. attached 2nd Fld. Amb.; sailed 13.1O.14; after service in Egypt was temp. attached as R.M.O. to 5th Btn. on Gallipoli. After a strenuous night and day attending wounded, he was sitting outside his dugout at 4 p.m. on gth May 1915, when he was hit in the head by a spent bullet. He never recovered consciousness, and died at Alexandria on 18th May 1915.