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After WW1 Barlow continued to serve in the CMF as a captain in the AAMC. Promoted major in 1931 and he was posted as OC of 8Fd Hygiene section until 1934. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration and promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1935 when he became CO of 6 Cav FdAmb.  He re-enlisted on 12th March 1941 was posted as CO 108 Convalescent Depot at Annaburroo, Northern Territory until September 1941. He continued during the war as a consultant to the Army with the rank of Colonel.  

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Blood, Sweat and Fears III: Medical Practitioners South Australia, who Served in World War 2. 

Swain, Jelly, Verco, Summers. Open Books Howden, Adelaide 2019. 

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Excerpt from Blood Sweat and Fears: Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australian who Served in World War 1. Courtesy of the Authors

Douglas Lewis Barlow, the second son of Arthur William Barlow, retailer, was born in Gawler on the 18th June 1894.  He was educated locally and then at Prince Alfred College. He had a brilliant scholastic career and was dux of the school in 1910, winning the Elder and Longbottom scholarships and top place in the State higher public school examination. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide and graduated with first class honours in 1915. He was a house surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital and had 3 years’ experience with the Senior Cadet Militia and 2 years as a private in the 31st AMC. He lived next door to the Bollens at 9 Fitzroy Terrace, Prospect, SA.

Barlow enlisted in the AIF on 19th October 1915 and applied for a commission in the AMC. On enlistment he was 21 years old, 5ft 9ins tall, weighed 10st 7lbs.  His father, of Fitzroy Terrace, was named as his next of kin. Barlow embarked for England in the Karoola from Melbourne on 27th May 1916 and was transferred to the 1 AAH, Harefield, England; then to the 2nd Field Amb and within a month to the 7th Australian Inf Battalion in France. He was awarded the Military Cross on 26th November 1917 at Ypres, ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack.  He advanced with the battalion, established his aid post, and dressed the wounded and assisted in their removal under constant shelling. Owing to casualties among bearers he was cut off from the ambulance clearing post for several hours, and it was mainly owing to his exertions that the wounded received attention and shelter during this period.’ After leave breaks in England and Paris, he was gassed by the enemy on 4th September 1918. It was a mild exposure but he was managed via the AAMC evacuation through CCS, No 32 Stationary Hospital and the 2 AGH.   He was discharged to duty to the Australian Division 10th Bn on 15th September 1918. There he was considered fit to travel and embarked to Australia in Demosthenes arriving at the 4 MD, Adelaide on 28th February 1919.  A Medical Board in March found him not fit for General Duties for another 6 months due to his history of being gassed, asthma, weight loss and general debility. His Service was terminated on 8th April 1919. He was issued with the British War Medal and the Victory Medal

After the War he continued to serve in the citizen forces. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration and promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1935. During the Second World War he was a consultant to the Army with the rank of Colonel.   He received his MD in 1922 for his thesis on Asthma, Hay Fever and Allied Conditions.  He held several honorary positions as a pathologist and bacteriologist at the Adelaide Children's Hospital, Adelaide Hospital and Adelaide University. He was active in medical politics especially regarding allergy and vaccines. During WW2 he started the first private pathology service in SA which, after his untimely death in 1950, Dr Eugene McLachlan continued. Douglas Lewis Barlow died on the 4th December 1950 at the time he lived and practiced on Portrush Road. He was survived by wife Mora and their three children; a daughter and a son who became doctors, and a son who became an engineer.

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http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3049568.

MJA, 1.1951.; Photo: AWM E01814

Commonwealth Gazette no 137, August 1918