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John Hankinson, Medical Student
John was born on 10 March 1919 in Ramsbottom in Lancashire and was proud of his half-Irish parentage. After schooling in Thornleigh College, Bolton, he graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1946. 8,004 total views
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Alan MacAuslan – Medical Student
While studying at St Thomas’ Hospital, medical student Alan MacAuslan joined a volunteer party of aid relief comprising of medical students from London’s teaching hospitals. 8,116 total views
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‘Dick’ Everett Jenkins – Medical Student
In April 1945, just before the Second World War ended, nearly 100 medical students from across London volunteered to support the British army. In this group, there were students from St Mary’s Medical School and Westminster Medical School, two of the schools that formed Imperial College School of Medicine. 75 years on, we want to share their stories and celebrate their courage. 6,322 total views
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Arnold Peter Meiklejohn
Arnold Peter Meiklejohn (1909 – 14 June 1961), known as Peter Meiklejohn, was an English physician and academic, specializing in nutrition. 6,306 total views
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Ian Whimster – Medical Student
Ian Wesley Whimster MRCPath was a reader of dermatology histopathology at St Thomas Hospital, London. 6,249 total views
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Medical Students
The Friends of Blackheath Halls presented this fascinating talk by Professor Stephen Challacombe on 30th September 2020. 7,299 total views
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Desmond Hawkins (Medical Student)
Desmond Hawkins’ early medical career was heavily affected by the Second World War. As a student he was involved in the early treatment of casualties from the Normandy landings and later he was in one of the first medical teams to enter the Belsen concentration camp after its liberation. 6,167 total views
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Edmond Boyd – Medical Student
At 23, Edmond Boyd was a privileged, upper-class Cambridge medical student who wanted to be a journalist, but was encouraged into medicine by his father. 5,873 total views
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Laurence Wand – Medical Student (St. Barts)
“You see, there was a war still being fought…There was a CCS, there was 32 CCS, there was an anti-aircraft regiment and there was a control unit, there were a few British Army units which had been allowed to be in reserve at Belsen, but their primary function was not to look after Belsen, their primary function was to back up the 21st Army Group in trying to get that war over and there was very little that could be spared.” 6,956 total views
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Alex Paton – Medical Student
My friend Alex Paton, who has died aged 91, was a distinguished physician who never sought high office in medicine but did good quietly, mentoring junior doctors, influencing the profession, and using his knowledge of liver disease to improve alcoholism treatment. When still a medical student, he spent May 1945 assisting in the liberation of Belsen. 7,259 total views
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