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Son of Major and Mrs. J.C. WAINE, Randwick, New South Wales.

Brother of Arthur Henry Charles WAINE 1193 and Joseph Victor WAINE - MAJ. 46th Infantry Battalion

Captain R.A.M.C. Royal Field Artillery.

Enlisted 1915 and embarked May 1915 and served in France and Mesopotamia

The death occurred at his home in Victoria Avenue  yesterday morning of Dr. John Grenville Waine, after a lengthy illness, at the age of 61 years.

Dr. Waine was a native of Sydney and was educated at the Sydney Grammar School and afterwards at the  Sydney University, where he obtained his medical  degree. Deciding to further his studies in medicine he  embarked for England, but while he was still on the  high seas the 1914-19 war broke out, and on his  arriving in England Dr. Waine joined the British  Expeditionary Forces and was attached to the artillery  section. He served in Mesopotamia, where he was  injured. He was invalided back to England, and after his discharge was appointed to the medical staff of the  Middlesex Hospital, where many of the soldiers wounded on active service were being treated. Prior to  the close of the war he was attached to the Greenwich Naval College, where he remained until  hostilities ceased.

After returning to Australia he took up his medical  practice, and when the Australian College of Surgery  was founded in Melbourne he had the honorary degree of F.R.A.C.S, conferred upon him in recognition of his  excellent services at the Middlesex Hospital.

In 1919 Dr. Waine acquired the medical practice in  Narrandera of Dr. Blythman, and remained here ever since. As a doctor Dr. Waine had few equals in the  country districts, and ranked high in the estimation of  the medical profession throughout Australia. As far  back as 15 years ago he was known to have attended  over 3,000 maternity cases in the Narrandera district. This number is more than half the population of the  town at the present time. How many such cases he  had attended since that time as well as other medical  and surgical cases, it would be difficult to estimate.

Dr. Waine's passing will certainly be a great loss to the  district and to the medical profession generally. He devoted himself to his profession, and spared no  trouble in attending to his patients, whether they were in the District Hospital or out in the country.

During the World War II the strain on members of the  medical profession was tremendous. Shortage of  doctors through enlistments and other causes threw a  heavy burden on those who remained and this strain  eventually affected Dr. Waine's constitution and caused his last illness.

He was a friend of everyone, and deep regret is felt by the residents of the town and district at his death. Dr. Waine was a playing member of the Golf Club for many years, and was also hon. medical officer of the Narrandera Race Club. He also interested himself with  other public movements, and was a member of the  Narrandera sub-branch of the R.S.L. for many years.

His work at the Narrandera District Hospital, both as a  medical officer and as lecturer of the nurses for their  examinations, will long be gratefully remembered.

Deceased is survived by his wife and two daughters,  Beverley and Roslyn Waine. He is also survived by one brother, Mr. Scott Waine of Sydney, but who is now on  his way to England; and one sister, Miss Madora Waine, Elizabeth Bay, Sydney. Two brothers, Arthur  and Victor, predeceased him.

A funeral service will be held at St. Thomas' Church at  6.45 p.m. today (Thursday). The cortege will leave the church for the railway station for entrainment of the  remains for Sydney. En route to the station a halt will  be made at the Memorial Gardens, where the wreaths  will be placed on the 1914-18 War Memorial.

A service will be held at St. James' Church, King  Street, Sydney, at 2 p.m. to-morrow prior to the  funeral to the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.

A guard of honour of returned soldiers will be formed  at the Memorial Gardens, and Mr. Frank Homan will  sound the Last Post. Watkins Bros. have charge of the  funeral arrangements at Narrandera. 

As a mark of respect to one who served in the first  World War the Australian flag, together with the new  Returned Soldiers' Pennant, was flown from the flag  staff in the Memorial Gardens yesterday.