Sir Fred Thompson BOWERBANK OBE KBE

Born Penrith 30 Apr 1880 Died Wellington 25 Aug 1960
Fred Bowerbank
Educated at Penrith High School, and at Edinburgh University
Worked as an assistant in a practice in Bury, Lancashire, before obtaining a HP post at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 1905
Emigrated to NZ in 1907, settling in Newtown, Wellington, where he developed a busy general practice.
Honorary Consulting Physician to the Home of Compassion 1907 – 1925
Honorary Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912 – 1925
Honorary Visiting Cardiologist, Wellington Hospital 1925 – 1940
Enlisted with NZMC, departing for Egypt in June 1915. Thereafter were spells at Brockenhurst as Officer Commanding No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, and to Etaples in France.
ADMS 1929 – 1934; DMS Army and PMO RNZAF 1934-1939; DMS Army and Air Medical and Dental 1939-1947
photograph courtesy RACP archive
Obituary: NZMJ 1960 59:441