HETZEL, Basil Stuart
| Service Number: | S40470 |
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| Enlisted: | 18 September 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | London, England, 13 November 1922 |
| Home Town: | Heathpool, Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | 4 February 2017, aged 94 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 18 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Kensington, SA | |
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| 18 Sep 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, S40470 |
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Hetzel was born in London to Elinor Hetzel (née Watt) and Kenneth Stuart Hetzel, an anaesthetist. Hetzel's parents were originally from South Australia but in London at the time while Kenneth worked at the University College Hospital. They returned to Adelaide in 1925. There he, along with his brother Peter (born 1924), was schooled at King's College and St Peter's College, Adelaide.
Hetzel studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1940 to 1944. As a medical student, he was granted reserved occupation status during World War II. He later applied to join the Royal Australian Air Force as a medical officer but was denied on grounds of being unfit due to a long bout of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1945.
Basil Stuart Hetzel AC was an Australian medical researcher who made a major contribution to combating iodine deficiency, a major cause of goitre and cretinism worldwide.
He was also Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, In office 28 May 1992 – 18 April 2000.
Information Provided by the History Committee of the AMA SA
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