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WELLINGTON HOSPITAL HISTORY

Shirer, William F

William Francis SHIRER

MB ChB (NZ) 1923

Born Wellington 16 May 1898 Died Wellington 16 Mar 1976
William F Shirer
Educated at Wellington College
WW1 service – final leave from Trentham 1918
HS / HP, Wellington Hospital 1923 – 1924
Commenced practice from 27 Riddiford St, Newtown on 31 Aug 1924
Honorary Visiting Assistant Physician, Wellington Hospital 1925 – 1940
WW2 service in the Pacific 1940 – 1943
Visiting Assistant Physician, Wellington Hospital 1943 – 1945 (relieving)
Visiting Physician to the Fever Hospital 1945

Obituary: NZMJ 1976 83:377
photograph courtesy Dominion Post collection, Alexander Turnbull Library