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ROWE Allan Gordon MB BS FRANZCR

1919 - 2007

Allan Gordon Rowe was born in Adelaide, on 17th January 1919. He was the only son of Charles Gordon Rowe and Laura Kimberley, nee Pascoe of Kensington Gardens. He had a sister Margaret. Rowe was educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide where he graduated MB BS in 1942.

Rowe enlisted, in the AAMC, 2/AIF, at the rank of captain on 7th December 1942, naming his father as his next of kin. He served with 105 AGH, from December 1942 until July 1943, during which time he completed the mandatory military courses.  He served with the Northern Territory Ambulance Train from July to September 1943, and then with 5th Aust Fd Regt from September 1943 to July 1944.  He was posted 2/11th FdAmb, in the Atherton Tablelands, QLD, on 28th March 1945.  Rowe left for Morotai Island, PNG on the van Heutsz from Cairns QLD, transferring to Tarakan, Indonesia on the Manoora, serving there until 29th December 1945.  He was attached 2/1st CCS at Labuan, Borneo, in December 1945, before his evacuation back to Australia with severe eczema and dermatitis and admitted to 105 AMH, Adelaide from January 1946.  When he was discharged from the hospital, he was allotted 105 AMH for reposting, until March 1947. He was medically downgraded and appointed RMO 4MD before his discharge on 4th March 1947.

Rowe married Margaret Betty Waddell, on 7th October 1946, at St Augustine’s Church, Unley just before he was discharged from the army. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs AL Waddell of Rose Park, SA. Rowe entered general practice at Murray Bridge after the war. He was the honorary medical superintendent at the Murray Bridge Soldiers Memorial Hospital, Murray Bridge, from 1959 to 1961. Deciding to train in radiology he was a radiology registrar at the RAH from 1962 to 1964; he obtained the MRACR in 1964. He was appointed honorary assistant radiologist at the Repatriation Hospital, Daw Park, SA from 1964 to 1968, an honorary assistant radiologist from 1968 to 1971 and honorary radiologist from 1971 until retirement. He was an honorary clinical assistant radiologist at the ACH from 1968 to 1970. Rowe was in private practice with Drs Peter Verco, Wyness and Robertson in the Verco Buildings on North Terrace, Adelaide, in North Adelaide and at the Blackwood Hospital. Allan Gordon Rowe died on 30th April 2007, survived by his two sons Peter and Christopher.

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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