Fred Thompson BOWERBANK OBE, KBE, Grand Officer Order Orange Nassau Netherlands, Knight of Grace St John MB ChB (Edin), MD (Edin), FRCP (Edin), FRACP
Born Penrith 30/4/1880 Died Wellington 25/8/1960 Educated at Penrith High School, and at Edinburgh University MB ChB (Edin) 1904, MD (Edin) 1917, MRCP (Edin) 1925, FRCP (Edin) 1929, FRACP 1938 Worked as an assistant in a practice in Bury, Lancashire, before obtaining a HP post at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 1905 Emigrated to NZ in 1907, settling in Newtown, Wellington, where he developed a busy general practice. Honorary Consulting Physician to the Home of Compassion 1907 - 1925 Honorary Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912 - 1925 Honorary Visiting Cardiologist, Wellington Hospital 1925 - 1940 Enlisted with NZMC, departing for Egypt in June 1915. Thereafter were spells at Brockenhurst as Officer Commanding No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, and to Etaples in France. ADMS 1929 - 1934; DMS Army and PMO RNZAF 1934-1939; DMS Army and Air Medical and Dental 1939-1947 Click the image to view detail in a larger version.
Obituary: NZMJ 1960 59:441	photograph courtesy RACP archive

Fred Thompson BOWERBANK OBE, KBE, Grand Officer Order Orange Nassau Netherlands,
Knight of Grace St John
MB ChB (Edin), MD (Edin), FRCP (Edin), FRACP

Born Penrith 30/4/1880 Died Wellington 25/8/1960

Educated at Penrith High School, and at Edinburgh University

MB ChB (Edin) 1904, MD (Edin) 1917, MRCP (Edin) 1925, FRCP (Edin) 1929, FRACP 1938

Worked as an assistant in a practice in Bury, Lancashire, before obtaining a HP post at the Royal Free Hospital in London in 1905

Emigrated to NZ in 1907, settling in Newtown, Wellington, where he developed a busy general practice.

Honorary Consulting Physician to the Home of Compassion 1907 - 1925

Honorary Physician, Wellington Hospital 1912 - 1925

Honorary Visiting Cardiologist, Wellington Hospital 1925 - 1940

Enlisted with NZMC, departing for Egypt in June 1915. Thereafter were spells at Brockenhurst as Officer Commanding No 1 New Zealand General Hospital, and to Etaples in France.
ADMS 1929 - 1934; DMS Army and PMO RNZAF 1934-1939; DMS Army and Air Medical and Dental 1939-1947

Click the image to view detail in a larger version.

Obituary: NZMJ 1960 59:441

photograph courtesy
RACP archive