MCCANN, Ralph Newton
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 8 July 1947 |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, Japan |
| Born: | Adelaide, South Australia, 1 January 1923 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | St Peter's College, and the University of Adelaide, Adelaide South Australia |
| Occupation: | Medical Practitioner |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 July 1975, aged 52 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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Peacekeeping Service
| 8 Jul 1947: | Enlisted Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, Japan |
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Son of William Francis James MCCANN CMG, DSO, OBE, MC and Bar, MID
Biography contributed by Annette Summers
McCANN Ralph Newton
MB BS FRCS DO
1923 -1975
Ralph Newton McCann, was born on 2nd May 1923. He was the son of William Francis James McCann and Mildred, nee Southcott. He was also the younger brother of William James McCann. He was educated at St Peter’s College and studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1946, the same year as his brother. He undertook his residency at the RAH and enlisted in the AAMC, in 1947.
He served with BCOF in Japan from 1947 until 1948. McCann served as a medical officer in Woomera, South Australia, until 1949, on his return to Australia.
Like his brother he travelled to England soon after his military service and was appointed as a resident clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London. He gained a diploma in ophthalmology in 1951. This was followed by a post graduate course in facial plastic surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, in 1953, and he gained his FRCS in 1957. He returned to Australia and was appointed as senior assistant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, in Melbourne. He married Suzanne in 1967. Ralph Newton McCann died on 31st July 1975: he was survived by his wife.
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Blood, Sweat and Fears II: Medical Practitioners of South Australia on Active Service After World War 2 to Vietnam 1945-197.
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