HAINS, Ivan Coronel
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Medical Officers |
| Born: | Portland Estate, South Australia, 15 June 1889 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Prince Alfred College, University of Adelaide |
| Occupation: | Doctor |
| Died: | Mosman, New South Wales, 18 April 1952, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Adelaide University of Adelaide WW1 Honour Roll, Gilgandra District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Captain, Medical Officers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Captain, Medical Officers, HMAT Orsova, Sydney |
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Excerpt from Blood Sweat and Fears: Medical Practitioners and Medical Students of South Australian who Served in World War 1. Courtesy of the Authors
Ivan Coronel Hains was born on the 15th June 1889 at Portland Estate, SA. He was the son of John Hains and his wife Julia Louisa, nee Coronel. Hains was educated at Prince Alfred College and studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1911. He then completed his residency at the Adelaide Hospital in 1912. He first entered general practice in Adelaide, and then moved to Gilgandra, NSW.
Hains enlisted in the AIF on 10th August 1915 in Dubbo NSW. He was commissioned in October 1915 aged 26 years and spoke German moderately well. He was 5ft 8ins tall, weighed 10st, and his wife, Mrs Maud Jean Hains was named as his next of kin with his address given as care of PO Box 55 GPO, Adelaide. He sailed for the Middle East on the 10th November on HMAT Orsova. He served briefly with 1 Remount Unit on arrival in Egypt, and then in April 1916 was posted as RMO of 12 FdAmb. He went to France with the unit, and served until the 22nd July 1917, when he returned to Australia with his appointment terminated on the 8th October 1917. He was issued with the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
Hains moved to Queensland and was an anaesthetist at the Bundaberg Hospital from 1920-22, and Medical Superintendent from 1922-24. During his latter period of office in Bundaberg, there occurred a local tragedy when twelve children died following inoculation against diphtheria. A Royal Commission found that the serum had been contaminated with staphylococcus by the use of a multi-dose vial. The Chairman of the Royal Commission, Dr Charles Kellaway, and one of the other Commissioners, Dr Arthur Tebbutt, had served abroad with the AAMC in WW1. Hains was appointed as an honorary Medical Officer at Bundaberg Hospital in 1934, and also at the Lady Chelmsford Hospital, Bundaberg. He was the GMO and also the CMO. He was in Bundaberg from 1925 to 1949. He moved back to New South Wales. Ivan Coronel Hains died suddenly at Mosman, NSW on the 18th April 1952 and was privately cremated.
Sources:
http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=4266529
Photo, Adelaide University Archives 1911 graduates.
http://www.mytrees.com/ancestry/Australia/Died-1952/Ha/Hains-family/Ivan-Hains-fo001339-385.html
Adelaide Advertiser 6th May 1952
Townsville Daily Bulletin 2nd February 1928.
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