Alexander Molesworth TOLHURST   
MRCS (Eng) LRCP (Lond) 1907, MB BS (Lond) 1909
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Born Wellington July 1881    Died France (western front) 8/5/1918
Family owned the Molesworth sheep station

Trained at Guy's Hospital, London

MRCS (Eng) LRCP (Lond) 1907, MB BS (Lond) 1909

RMO, agricultural settlement in Aswan, Egypt 1908
Returned to NZ in 1910

Honorary Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912-1915

Enlisted with NZ Medical Corps 1915.  Initially MO on the Hospital Ship Maheno
Died in the field while RMO 4th Battalion NZ Rifle Brigade

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Obituary: NZMJ 1918 17:115

photograph courtesy
Earle Andrew collection
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington ref: G- 14960-1/1