WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY
Holmes, Matthew
Matthew HOLMESMB ChB (Edin) 1902, FRCS (Edin) 1905, MD (Edin) 1905
Born Edinburgh 2 Nov 1879 Died Wellington 15 Nov 1918
M Holmes
Educated in Oamaru, at Otago Boys’ High School and Otago and Edinburgh Universities
Resident Surgeon, Chalmers Hospital for Children, Edinburgh 1903 – 1906
First registered as a medical practitioner in NZ 2 Apr 1907
Honorary Surgeon, Wellington Hospital 1912 – 1916
WW1 service in Samoa, Egypt, at Gallipoli and in France
Invalided to NZ in January 1918.
Died of influenza
Obituary: NZMJ 1918 17:225 BMJ 1918 2:685
photograph courtesy Earle Andrews collection, Alexander Turnbull Library