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Australian Broadcasting Corporation programme entitled 'This is Your Life: Weary Dunlop' about the life of Sir Edward Dunlop; includes recollections from POWs about his work as Australian Army Medical Corps doctor in Japanese POW camps in Thailand, 1942-1945
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REEL 1 Television programme entitled 'This Is Your Life' reviewing life of Sir Edward Dunlop broadcast from St Andrew's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 1975: family background from 1907; brother Alan's and friend Tom's reminiscences; rugby career; medical studies and Sir Frank Mills' recollections of 'Weary's' final exam; Army service and circumstances of being in Java 3/1942; reminiscences of Matron Mikki de Jonge MBE(?) and start of hospital at Bandoeng; transport as POW to Burma -Thailand railway; fellow POW Ray Parkin describes railway hospitals and nature of illnesses; fellow doctor Ewan Corlet and various other fellow POWs' recollections of Dunlop in POW camps; Brigadier Bill Werne and Father Burke recall Dunlop's qualities as POW; recollections of his pioneering post-war medical career specialising in cancer; son John's tribute; Bill Griffiths' POW injuries and how Dunlop saved his life.
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