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Your help would be greatly appreciated. Home » Themes » People » Military. He lectured on his medical interests and for a time taught at the University of Melbourne. Visits to the United States, Britain and other countries developed his professional knowledge and widened his professional and social contacts, and he was actively involved with Australian and international professional bodies, including the International Society of Surgeons. His medical interests extended to community health matters, such as cancer, alcoholism, drug dependence and fluoridation.
Dunlop's friendship with Lord Casey led to his involvement in the Colombo Plan. He taught and undertook surgical work in Thailand, Ceylon and India. He encouraged and promoted the training in Australia of Asian medical personnel and was an active member of the Australian-Asian Association of Victoria.
His involvement in Indian medicine was particularly strong and he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Association of Surgeons in Dunlop maintained an ongoing concern for the health and welfare of former POWs of the Japanese many of whom were his patients. He supported individuals making pension claims and advised and lobbied governments on their behalf. Dunlop also remained active with ex-prisoner of war and veterans associations, being for a time federal president of the Ex-POW Association of Australia.
He addressed numerous reunions, meetings and ceremonies both in Australia and overseas. In his later years he led commemorative tours to the Burma-Thailand railway. He came to reject hatred of his former captors and promoted reconciliation with the Japanese.
Dunlop was also a patron, member and supporter of numerous social, educational and sporting associations. Dunlop graduated top of his class in his Pharmacy course and would do the same when studying Medicine at The University of Melbourne. He enrolled in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps soon after his graduation in , and enlisted at the outbreak of the Second World War in , while completing his post-graduate surgical training in England. His enlistment would see him recognised, in due time, as a surgeon of considerable skill who served in a senior position in the Middle East.
The hospital was captured by the Japanese army and Dunlop, upon refusing to leave his patients, became a prisoner of war. Along with other POWs, he was sent to Thailand to work on the Burma — Siam Railway, a Japanese engineering project that cost the lives of one hundred thousand native labourers and Allied soldiers.
They were the first Australian group sent to work on the railway. Serving as Commanding Officer, Dunlop was also in charge of the Allied general hospital in Bandung Central Java which housed over a thousand patients.
Here he inspired those suffering the conditions of the labour camps. Coates also put him in charge of surgery and physiotherapy. Repatriated in October , Dunlop transferred to the Reserve of Officers as an honorary colonel on 2 February He was appointed OBE and mentioned in despatches both for his service. Resuming civilian life, Dunlop entered private practice and was appointed honorary surgeon to out-patients, later in-patients, at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Many of his patients were prisoners of war POWs or their wives; none were charged for their treatment. Demonstrating his ongoing commitment to their welfare, he served as president —89 of the Victorian branch of the Ex-Prisoners of War Relatives Association for the next twenty-three years.
In August he opened an exhibition of watercolours and pencil sketches by the former POW Ray Parkin, who had created the artworks in captivity; Dunlop had concealed them beneath a table top, and brought them to Australia. He quickly gained a reputation for taking on difficult surgeries and for performing long, complex procedures.
While his status as a surgeon was unquestioned, some of his surgical colleagues chafed at his tendency to run over time in theatre, charging him with being unprofessional. Under the Colombo Plan, in and he undertook surgical work in Thailand, Ceylon Sri Lanka , and India, and later encouraged the training of Asian medical personnel in Australia. In he returned to South-East Asia during the Vietnam War as leader of the Australian surgical team caring for civilians.
He had been appointed CMG in and was knighted in Sir Edward maintained a high public profile. Chairman of the Prisoners of War Trust Fund —77 , he took an active role in community health, serving as president of the Victorian Foundation on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence —82 and chairman of the executive committee of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria —
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