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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Saunders, John H

John Hutchison SAUNDERS OBE

MB ChB (NZ) 1943, FRCS (Eng) 1949, FRACS 1958

Born 29 Mar 1920 Died 7 Apr 2002
John Saunders
Educated at Scots College, Wellington
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1944 and in 1947
WW2 service in Italy and Japan
Postgraduate training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London 1950 – 1951
Senior Orthopaedic Registrar, Wellington Hospital 1952
Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1953 – 1985

Obituary: NZMJ 2002 115:276
photograph courtesy NZ Orthopaedic Association ‘Orthopaedics in NZ’ by Colin Hooker