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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Button, Eardley L

Eardley Lorimer BUTTON OBE CBE

MB ChB (NZ) 1925, FRCS (Edin) 1928, FRCS (Eng) 1931, FRACS 1937

Born London 9 Mar 1903 Died Wellington 6 May 1982
Eardley Button
Educated in NZ
HS/HP, Wellington Hospital 1926 – 27
Honorary Assistant Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1932 – 1936
Honorary Senior Surgeon, Wellington Children’s Hospital 1936 – 1940 assisted by Keith Bridge
Served with NZMC in Egypt and Italy 1940 – 1944
Visiting Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1945 – 1963
In 1952, travelled to the Brompton Hospital for postgraduate study into thoracic surgery.

Obituary: NZMJ 1982 95:394
photograph courtesy S P Andrew collection, Alexander Turnbull Library