OCRd book entry or other narrative
Med II. His surname and initial are listed in the back of the Book of Remembrance in the Miscellaneous Section as a member of the Company who had not been precisely classifiable.
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On 21 May 1940 Halliday was commissioned in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force, and next day was promoted to major. When he embarked for the Middle East in October to join the 2/5th Australian General Hospital, he took a portable electrocardiograph with him and, after his arrival, did cardiac assessment for the British and Australian armies. In 1942 he was repatriated and promoted to lieutenant colonel. He served in Australia until he transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 7 May 1944. [ADB entry]