SOUTH, Harold
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 13 May 1918, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Tapanui, New Zealand, 11 June 1875 |
| Home Town: | Boonah, Scenic Rim, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Melbourne C of E Grammar School; Melbourne Univeristy, Trinity College |
| Occupation: | Medical Practioner |
| Died: | Died of Illness (post-op gall stones), United Kingdom, 9 September 1919, aged 44 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sutton Veny (St. John) Churchyard, Wiltshire, England 95 N 2 |
| Tree Plaque: |
Roma Heroes Avenue
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| Memorials: | Boonah War Memorial, Melbourne Grammar School WW1 Fallen Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 13 May 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Brisbane, Queensland | |
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| 17 Jul 1918: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, Medical Officers, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' |
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| 17 Jul 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, Medical Officers, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 9 Sep 1919: | Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, Army Medical Corps (AIF), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: awm_unit: Australian Army Medical Corps awm_rank: Captain awm_died_date: 1919-09-09 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Sharyn Roberts
HAROLD SOUTH who died in England on 9th September 1919 at 1st A.G.H. Sutton Veny after an operation was the son of the Rev. George F. South.
He was born in 1875 and was at the School in 1891-92, and was later a resident student at Trinity College. He had a distinguished course at the Melbourne University and graduated with honors in 1898. He won the Exhibition in Therapeutics with First Class Honors
in 1896 and Second Class Honors in Medicine and Surgery in 1898. He won an Open Scholarship on the Perry Foundation at Trinity College, where he resided from 1893 to 1897. Several times he rowed in the Trinity boat, which he stroked in the year 1896, and rowed in the University crew of 1898. He was resident medical officer at the Melbourne Hospital in 1899 and at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne, in 1900.
He then went to Queensland as medical officer to the Hospital
for Sick Children, Brisbane, and then to Rockhampton, where he practised for three and a half years. In 1906 he went to. Boonah and practised there till his departure in July 1918 on service as Captain in A.A.M.C., to which he was appointed on 13th May 1918. In 1915 he was prevented from going by serious illness.
He went first to 3rd Australian General Hospital at Dartford, Kent, and in January 1919 to 1st A.G.H. Sutton Veny, Warminster, Wilts, where he did much valuable surgical work.
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