Elliott, J Kennedy

Born Wellington 24 Aug 1908 Died Wellington 19 Jan 1968
J K Elliott
Educated at Wellington College
Went directly to Edinburgh from College
HS, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Registrar to Reginald Watson-Jones at the Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry.
Honorary Visiting Assistant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1936 – 1939
WW2 service: RMO, 18th Auckland Battalion 1939/40 DADM NZ Division in the Middle East, Greece and Crete.
Toward the end of the war, as Orthopaedic Consultant to the NZ Government, he travelled widely, studying the rehabilitation of amputees. Spent some of this time at Roehampton.
Visiting Senior Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1945 – 1968

Obituary: NZMJ 1968 67:436
photograph courtesy War History collection, Alexander Turnbull Library