DART, Raymond Arthur
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | 25 March 1918, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Captain |
| Last Unit: | Medical Officers |
| Born: | Toowong, Queensland, 4 February 1893 |
| Home Town: | Blenheim, Lockyer Valley, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Toowong and Blenheim State School, Ipswich Grammar School, and Sydney University |
| Occupation: | Medical practitioner |
| Died: | Natural causes, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 November 1988, aged 95 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 25 Mar 1918: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Captain, Officer, Medical Officers, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 17 Jul 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Captain, Medical Officers, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '23' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Jul 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Captain, Medical Officers, HMAT Borda, Sydney | |
| 4 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Captain, Medical Officers, Discharged in England |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by John Edwards
"Raymond Arthur Dart (1893-1988), anatomist and anthropologist, was born on 4 February 1893 at Toowong, Brisbane, fifth of nine children of Samuel Dart, a Queensland-born storekeeper, and his wife Eliza Ann, née Brimblecombe, who was born in New South Wales. Raised mainly on a dairy farm near Laidley, Raymond attended Toowong and Blenheim State and Ipswich Grammar schools. He graduated from the University of Queensland (B.Sc., 1914; M.Sc., 1916) with first-class honours in biology, and studied medicine at the University of Sydney (Ch.M., MB, 1917; MD, 1927), where he came under the influence of James Wilson. Resident in St Andrew’s College, he was acting vice-principal in 1917. He was a medical officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; as a captain (1918-19) in the Australian Army Medical Corps, he served in England and France but saw no action..." - READ MORE LINK (adb.anu.edu.au)
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