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MARTIN Ian Holland RANR MD FRANZCP FRCPSYCH

DPM RCP&S

1919-2013

Ian Holland Martin was born, on 1st June 1919, at Largs Bay SA. He was the son of Eric Vivian Holland Martin and Jean Mitchell, nee McNeil. Martin studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating MB BS in 1942. He was a junior resident medical officer at the RAH in 1943.

Martin was mobilised from the Adelaide Port Division, on 7th December 1942, as a surgeon lieutenant RANR with seniority of 7th August 1942. He named his first wife, Kathlean Eleanor Martin as his next of kin. Martin was immediately appointed to HMAS Torrens and on 26th December to HMAS Melville in Darwin until 8th June 1943. Then he remained on shore duty at HMAS Cerberus in VIC, until he commenced sea duty on HMAS Adelaide from 7th October 1943. A combined multi-nation task Force (TF66) attacked Japanese Java, in May 1944, which left the Adelaide on patrol around Western Australia's Exmouth Gulf to protect the supply ships. This was the cruiser's last voyage, and on 19th May 1944, Adelaide was released from this duty and headed south to Fremantle with the destroyer HMAS Quiberon and finally to Melbourne on 19th December 1944. Martin’s RAN service was terminated the following day to his new home port of Melbourne. During his service, his address was recorded as Brighton, SA, Brighton, VIC and Sherwood Court, WA.

Martin returned to Adelaide and was a junior medical officer at the Parkside Mental Hospital, Adelaide from 1945 to 1946 and a senior medical officer from 1946 to 1948. He was the deputy superintendent at the Enfield Receiving House, SA, from 1948 to 1951 and obtained the DPM RCP&S in 1950. He was awarded his MD Adelaide, in 1952. Martin travelled to England and was a junior registrar at the Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Psychiatric Hospitals, London, in 1949 and 1950. He returned to Australia and took a position as an honorary clinical assistant psychiatrist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, 1951 until 1958, and honorary psychiatrist from 1967 until 1972. Martin became a visiting psychiatrist at the Repatriation Department Rockingham Home, Kew, VIC; the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, from 1951 to 1969; a psychiatric consultant to the Commonwealth Department of Health, from 1951 and 1972, and senior visiting psychiatrist(psychotherapist) at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, from1973 to 1980. He was a foundation fellow of the RANZCP, in 1965, and the RCPSYCH, in 1972. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, and President of the American GP Psychotherapy Association from 1977 until 1979. Ian Holland Martin, died in Melbourne, Victoria, on 9th December 2013.  His second wife, Pamela Margaret, nee Seakamp predeceased him.  He was survived by his three children Fiona Jane, Bronwen Louise and Roderick William Andrew.

Source

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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