Fred Thompson Bowerbank

Major General Sir Fred Thompson Bowerbank KBE MC ED (30 April 1880 – 25 August 1960) was a New Zealand medical doctor and military administrator. He was born in Penrith, Cumberland, England. At the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.[1] He gained an MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1917, with a thesis on intestinal disease in the New Zealand expeditionary force in Egypt and the Dardanelles.[2]

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[3]

He was Chief Medical Officer of the RNZAF from 1937 to 1939 and served as Director-General of Medical Services from 1939 to 1947.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Beasley, A. W. "Fred Thompson Bowerbank". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  2. ↑ T., Bowerbank, Fred (1917). "Some observations upon intestinal disease in the New Zealand expeditionary force in Egypt and the Dardanelles, with special reference to the enterica groups, from July 1915 to March 1916".
  3. ↑ "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
  4. ↑ Generals.dk


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