PRIVATE FRANK NOLAN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY THE GREAT WAR MEDICAL SERVICES 1 MEDICAL SERVICES 2 AMBULANCE TRAIN MILITARY HOSPITALS
WAR AND MEDICINE WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST ALL CLEAR GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER GROUP CAPTAIN DOUGLAS BADER CBE DSO '
THE MEDICAL MEMORIES ROADSHOW
‘To understand where we are today
We have to know where we have come from’
ROBERT 'SCOTTIE '
GARDEN
"Robert Symon Garden, the youngest of the three children of John Garden, a farmer, and of Elizabeth Garden (née Hackett), was born at Macduff, Banffshire, on 2 August 1910. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Marischal College, Aberdeen University, where he graduated in 1934. After resident appointments at Preston Royal Infirmary and Southport, he was orthopaedic registrar to Professor T P McMurray at David Lewis Northern Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, subsequently expressing his deep indebtedness to McMurray during this five year period."
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"He took the MCh Orth in 1936 and Edinburgh FRCS in 1939 and, on the outbreak of war, he worked in the Emergency Medical Service at Southport before joining the RAMC. He commanded No 3 Orthopaedic Centre in Egypt, North Africa and Italy between 1942 and 1945, and was for a short while in charge of a field surgical unit before taking command of No 4 CCS and 48 General Hospital in Austria. He was demobilised in 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel."
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"On returning to the UK he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Preston and Chorley Group of Hospitals where his industry and skill built up a first-class orthopaedic and accident unit. He vigorously campaigned for the improvement of the accident department and was one of the first to organise direct radio links between his department and the ambulance service. For many years he lectured regularly to the district ambulance staff to emphasise the crucial part they could play in reducing the mortality and morbidity in accident victims. He also fought hard to establish an intensive care unit for the seriously injured at a time when this concept was in its infancy."