Richard William DURAND   
MRCS (Eng) LRCP (Lond), MRCGP
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Born India 4/6/1903    Died Palmerston North 1988

Educated in England

MRCS (Eng) LRCP (Lond) 1928, MRCGP 1960

Served with the RAF in WW2.  After being shot down, served for a time as MO on the troop ship Queen Elizabeth.  Later he was MO at a RAF training establishment in England.

Post-war, he worked as Medical Superintendent Belfast City Hospital, before emigrating to New Zealand in 1950

Superintendent-in-Chief, Wellington Hospital Board 1950 - 1956

Visiting MO, Greytown Hospital, before moving to Otaki where he established a general practice.

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photograph courtesy
Wellington Hospital Photographic Archive