Major General Sir Fred Thompson Bowerbank (1880 to 1960) was a physician and military medical administrator who became Director-General of Medical Services for the New Zealand Army and Air Force from 1939 to 1947. Born in Penrith, Cumberland, he graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1904 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1907. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the First World War and earned an Edinburgh doctorate in 1917 with a thesis on intestinal disease among the troops in Egypt and the Dardanelles. For most of his career he was consulting cardiologist to Wellington Hospital, and he was Chief Medical Officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1937 to 1939. He was made KBE in 1946, honoured by the Netherlands for his wartime service, and wrote a memoir, A Doctor's Story, published in 1958. He died in Wellington in 1960.
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In 1907 he emigrated to New Zealand with his young wife.
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(30 April 1880-25 August 1960)
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In 1907 he emigrated to New Zealand with his young wife.
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Bowerbank was Chief Medical Officer of the RNZAF from 1937 to 1939 and served as Director-General of Medical Services for the New Zealand Army and Air Force between 1939 and 1947.
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For most of his professional life, Bowerbank was consulting cardiologist to the Wellington Hospital, New Zealand.
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