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Kenneth Fraser

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and took up a part-time post at the city's Children's Hospital. In 1938 he became a lecturer in paediatric surgery at the University of Queensland and was awarded a Master of Surgery degree in 1940. He remained at the Children's Hospital until 1957. In the meantime, he served in the
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With the war over, he focused on his former practice and campaigned for a chair of paediatrics at the University of Queensland. He was president of
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and was posted as assistant director of medical services for the Australian Imperial Force in the United Kingdom. He went on to command the
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the following year. He died on 24 June 1969 and was survived by his wife, Edith Mary Patricia Lloyd
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and graduated in 1921 with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degrees (
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Hart (whom he had married in 1929), and their two sons and two daughters.
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Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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Index

Kenneth Fraser (disambiguation)
Brigadier
CBE
FRACS
Hughenden
Queensland
Brisbane Grammar School
University of Queensland
St Andrew's College
University of Sydney
MB, ChM
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Sydney
general practitioner
Brisbane
Citizen Military Forces
captain
Royal Australian Army Medical Corps
7th Field Ambulance
lieutenant-colonel
Australian Imperial Force
Second World War
United Kingdom
colonel
2nd Australian General Hospital
Middle East
brigadier
British Medical Association
Australian Paediatrics Association
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

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