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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

Arthur Murray Cudmore was born at ‘Paringa,’ second son of James Cudmore, on his family's sheep station on the River Murray near Renmark. His love of the country was a life long interest as was an interest in duck shooting. A left eye dominance required a curved stock for his Evans shotgun so that the gun at his right shoulder was brought up under his left eye. He was educated at St Peter’s College and the University of Adelaide where he graduated MB BS in 1894. He then travelled to London where he took the MRCS-LRCP in 1896 and trained in surgery at The London Hospital and at St Mark's Hospital for diseases of the rectum. He obtained the FRCS in 1899 before returning to Adelaide where he was appointed Honorary Assistant Surgeon in 1901 and Honorary Surgeon from 1905-1925 when his 20 year appointment expired. He was lecturer in Clinical Surgery at the University of Adelaide from 1908-1919. He married Kathleen Cavenagh-Mainwaring in 1901 and they had two daughters.

Cudmore, aged 44 years, 5ft 10ins and weighing 11st 6lbs, joined the reinforcements for 3 AGH in April 1915. He embarked for the Middle East on the RMS Mooltan on 15th May1915. He served at Gallipoli and on Lemnos before contracting paratyphoid in December 1915. He was admitted with the diagnosis of paratyphoid, emphysema and myocardial insufficiency. He returned to South Australia where he was discharged  permanently unfit for service. Notwithstanding this he was consulting surgeon to 4 MD at Keswick and, mid 1918, returned overseas in the rank of lieutenant colonel and served in Great Britain and France before returning to Adelaide and was discharged in mid-1919.

Cudmore returned to surgical practice where he was remembered for his quiet voice, courtesy, and his simple sometimes delightfully repetitive teaching and his safe gentle surgery. He was a significant contributor to founding of the Dental School at the University of Adelaide and was Dean of the Dental Faculty and President of the Dental Board of SA. His hobbies included golf and motoring. He helped found the Royal Automobile Association of SA and was President in 1935. He was President of the Royal Adelaide Golf Club from 1925-1927. He appointed CMG in 1935 and knighted in 1945. Sir Arthur Murray Cudmore died on 27th February 1951 and his wife passed away on the 8th March 1951

Col. Sir Arthur Murray Cudmore, KB, CMG, who is a son of the late Mr. J. F. Cudmore, of Paringa, Murray River, is one of the foremost surgeons in South Australia. He was educated at St. Peter's College and the Adelaide University, where he took his medical degrees. After five years' study in England, part of which time he was a house surgeon at the London Hospital, he became a Fellow of the Royal  College of Surgeons. He later became lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Adelaide and consulting surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital.
In 1915 he left Australia with the rank of lieutenant-colonel as consulting surgeon to the 3rd Australian General Hospital, but was invalided home the following year with typhoid. He left Australia again  in August, 1918, and remained in France until the middle of the following year.
In between wars he has served as consulting surgeon on the Australian Army Medical Corps reserve, and is now chief surgeon at No. 7 Australian General Hospital. Keswick.
He was elected a member of the University Council in 1927, and has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry and president of the Dental Board, of which he became a member in 1904. He has  been president of the Medical Board of South Australia since 1938, when be succeeded Dr. R. S. Rogers. He is still a member of the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also a member of the  advisory committee of the Adelaide Hospital, where he was surgeon for 21 years until his term of office expired in 1925.
Chairman of the house committee of the Cheer Up Society since it was revived more than five years ago, Lady Cudmore is one of the society's most enthusiastic workers. The house committee, which  comprises the voluntary women work ers in charge of the different sessions, is responsible for all the domestic work at the hut, where more than two million meals have been served to members of the fighting forces during this war. She was also a member of the executive when the society was revived. Lady Cudmore has many philanthropic interests. For many years she has been a member of the  Harbor Lights Guild of the Missions to Seamen, which, in peacetime as well as during the war, provides comforts for men of the Merchant Navy. The guild has raised thousands of pounds and provided  knitted garments and other comforts since it was established.
Among her many other interests Lady Cudmore is a member of the English Speaking Union, and was a member of the original committee which formed the Adelaide branch. She was also a member of  the first committee for St. Mark's College. Lady Cudmore is a daughter of the late Hon. Wentworth Cavan agh-Mainwaring, who represented the district of Yatala for 20 years and was Commissioner of  Crown Lands and Public Works. Sir Arthur and Lady Cudmore have twin daughters, Mesdames Rafe Cavanagh-Mainwaring and G. de Cres pigny.