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Poate, Hugh Raymond Guy (1884 - 1961)

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Born: 16 January 1884  Summer Hill, New South Wales, Australia.  Died: 26 January 1961  Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
(Sir) Hugh Raymond G. Poate was skilled in orthopaedic, cranial and thoracic surgery. He was an international authority on thyroid surgery and was the first Australian to introduce medical treatment for hyperthyroidism using "thio" drugs. He was heavily involved with the St John Ambulance Brigade, becoming chief executive in 1947 when the Australian commandery became an independent branch. Poate was knighted in 1952, a foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS), President of the Medical Board of New South Wales, President of the Orchid Society of New South Wales and of the Royal Horticultural Society of New South Wales.
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1907Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Master of Surgery (ChM) completed at the University of Sydney
1907Resident of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney
1908Medical work in London
1909 - Commissioned in the Australian Army Medical Corps
1909 - Private practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney
1913 - Joined the St John Ambulance Brigade
1914 - 1917Member of the Australian Imperial Force
1929 - Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Australian Air Force
1929 - 1942State Commissioner of the St John Ambulance Brigade
1938Lecturer in postgraduate surgery and Director of the surgical unit at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney
1942 - 1947Administrative Head of Commandery of the St John Ambulance Brigade
1945 - 1948President of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
1947 - Chief Executive of Commandery of the St John Ambulance Brigade
1947Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO)
1952Knighted
1957 - 1961Foundation Chairman of the Old People's Welfare Council of New South Wales

 
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