Gillies, Sir Alexander

Born Dunedin 26 Sep 1891 Died Wellington 19 Feb 1982
Si Alexander Gillies
Educated at Otago Boys’ High School, Otago University
NZEF in Middle East 1916 – early 1919
Postgraduate experience at the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, and at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, in both places under Sir Robert Jones.
Studied at the Mayo Clinic 1927, and at the Lockwood Clinic, Toronto 1928 – 1929
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1929 – 1950
Resident Commissioner, British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John of Jerusalem, London 1940 – 1941
Instrumental in the founding of the NZ Crippled Children Society, the NZ Association of Health, Physical Education and Health, and the NZ Orthopaedic Association.

Obituary: NZMJ 1982 95:359
photograph courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library