Shipway G.S. : Military and health.Enlisted: Officer 1917 - 1920
Military service: id 69026
LINKED MEDIA
Type of event
Specific terms.Military and health.Enlisted
Rank
Officer
Force or Unit
A.A.M.C Australian Army Medical Corps
Sources
Other
Source Details free text
Verco, C. et al, Blood, Sweat and Fears: medical practitioners and medical students of South Australia who served in World War I, 2014
Start date
1917
End date
1920
Short description
G S Shipway was posted to the Australian Camel Brigade Field Ambulance and embarked for the Middle East in 1917. He was appointed adjutant of his unit. He had one escapade in which he "infiltrated enemy lines on his camel in the dead of night to steal drugs for his patients as supplies had failed to arrive". He was promoted to Major (temporary) in 1919. When he was granted study leave in England he used the time to work at the British Royal Infirmary. There he met his future wife, Hilda, one of the first 2 female medical graduates from Bristol University. He returned to Australia in 1920. On discharge, G S Shipway was granted the rank of Honorary Major.
