Durand, Richard W

Born India 4 Jun 1903 Died Palmerston North 1988
Richard Durand
Educated in England
Served with the RAF in WW2. After being shot down, served for a time as MO on the troop ship Queen Elizabeth. Later he was MO at a RAF training establishment in England.
Post-war, he worked as Medical Superintendent Belfast City Hospital, before emigrating to New Zealand in 1950
Superintendent-in-Chief, Wellington Hospital Board 1950 – 1956
Visiting MO, Greytown Hospital, before moving to Otaki where he established a general practice.

photograph courtesy Wellington Hospital photographic archive