Dr William Wood - 'The trials, achievements, confessions and adventures in many lands of a well known Sydney physician', being an unpublished memoir compiled 1972-1974

MLMSS 6637/Box 1X

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1972 - 1974

395367

Photocopy : MLMSS 6637/Box 1X

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) 219 pages
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy)

William Wood was born in Peterhead, Scotland in 1882. He studied medicine at Aberdeen and Dublin. After appointments at various hospitals in Britain and South Africa, and a voyage to India in 1905 as ship's surgeon on the Arabic, he settled in Australia in 1912. He set up practice in northern NSW, in Bellingen and then Coffs Harbour. During WWI he served with the Australian Imperial Forces in Palestine and Egypt. After the war he established a large practice at Bondi Beach. In 1926 he left on an extensive travelling holiday and to undertake further study in England; on his return in 1931 he set up in practice in Macquarie Street and became consulting physician to the Hotel Australia.
Dr Wood was a member and president of the Sydney Savage Club; an active worker in Legacy (president in 1934) and a life member of the Returned Services League. He helped set up the War Veteran's Home at Narrabeen and during WWII he was founding commanding officer of Concord Military Hospital. In 1965 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for service to ex-servicemen.