Andrew Honman - President 1915 -

Date
1915
 Description
Scottish surgeon Dr Andrew Honman M.R.C.S., Lond. (1858-1926), Member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons London. Dr Honman was in Egypt in 1880, when the cholera epidemic was rampant, before he came to Australia in 1883, settling at Williamstown, Victoria where he remained for a long period. He was medical officer with the Second Victorian contingent at the South African war, and was instrumental in the establishment of intermediate hospitals in Melbourne. He did duty in the Great War, and was specially engaged in service for the Repatriation department for the limbless soldiers. Afterwards he was appointed director of medical service in New Guinea. He was a past-president of the Victorian branch of British Medical Association 1915.
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Object detail

Date
1915
Medium
photo, card
Measurements
24.5 x 16.2 cm (mounted)
Accession Number
MHMA1319.4
Credit line
Loaned to the Medical History Museum by the Australian Medical Association (Victorian branch) in 1994, then donated in 2011
Associated Person
Object Type
photographic medium/photograph
Named Collection
AMA Victoria Archive
Medical History Museum Category
Photography, Sound and Film
Museum
Medical History Museum

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