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World War I, also known as the Great War, was an international war originating from Europe. Many countries fought against and with each other forming alliances. It lasted from 28th of July 1914 to 11th November 1918.

Harry Carew Nott was born in Walkerville, Adelaide, South Australia on the 1st of August 1888. His address was St Georges, Lower Mitcham. He studied in Adelaide University and got the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and soon after became a medical practitioner. He was a married Christian to Marjorie Lowe (Marjorie Nott). Marjorie Lowe was born on 6 Aug 1892 in New South Wales. They had a daughter named Dorothy Carew Nott. Dorothy was born on 4th of December 1918. Marjorie passed away on 3rd of December 1970 and Dorothy on the 13th of March 2000.

Harry Carew Nott was 27 and 8 months when he enlisted on the 9th May 1914. He embarked from Adelaide, South Australia on the 20th of October 1914 overseas on HMAT Ascanius.

Harry was Captain, Regiment Medical Officer of the 10th Battalion, Headquarters of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). He served in Gallipoli in 1915. He was admitted several different illnesses during World War I.

On the 21st of July 1915 he was admitted for Neurasthenia in Lemnos and transferred to 1st Australian Stationary Hospital on the 28th. He was then discharged from hospital and rejoined his unit on the 15th of August 1915. On the 29th of September 1915 he was admitted with a fever and transported to hospital ship in Gallipoli Peninsula. He then returned to duty on Karoola which embarked from Melbourne on the 27th of May 1916. 5th of October 1915 in Alexandria he was admitted with dysentery and then on the 22nd he was transported to Convalescent Home in Bulkeley.

He was also admitted with enteric fever and embarked from Suez on Ulysses to Melbourne Australia for 3 months on the 5th of February 1916. He returned to duty in the 4th Military District on the 23rd of May 1916. On the 1st of February Harry Nott marched in the 3rd Training Battalion in Durrington

On the 14th of November 1917 Harry Carew Nott became a Major of AAMC, and then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) on the 25th of July 1918.

Harry Carew Nott returned safely back to Australia on the 14th of September 1920 by Orvieto which embarked from England on the 6th of March 1920. He served in World War II. He passed away on the 23rd of January 1973, age 84 in South Australia. He is part of the University of Adelaide WWI Honour Roll Memorial.

NOTT Harry Carew ED MB BS FCRA DMRE

1888-1973

Harry Carew Nott was born, on the 1st August 1888, at Walkerville, SA, the only child of Albert Edward Nott, the manager of the South Australian Brewing Company, and Harriett Augusta, nee Taylor. He was educated at St Peter’s College where he was a senior lieutenant in the cadets. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, excelling in cricket, tennis and lacrosse and graduating in 1913. Nott enlisted in the first AIF on 4th August 1914, the day that war was declared. Nott left for Egypt, on 2nd November 1914, which was the first troop ship to depart from Adelaide in WW1. Nott later landed at Gallipoli on 25th April 1915. By June dysentery had taken hold of the Australians and Nott was part of the reserve sanitary squad. Nott, himself was infected with dysentery and evacuated back to Australia, via Lemnos and Alexandria. While in Australia, he married Marjorie Lowe on the 22nd February 1916 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel sent to England and France. He returned to Australia and his appointment was terminated in 1920. Nott remained in the CMF until 1925. Nott was one of the first full-time radiologists, in Adelaide, and conducted a private practice from his home in Hutt St, (now the Naval, Military and Air Force Club), and, in 1921, he was appointed as an honorary radiologist at the Adelaide Hospital and later at the Repatriation Hospital.

Nott enlisted in the 2/AIF, on 18th January 1940, initially at the rank of major, and was quickly made up to the rank of temporary lieutenant colonel. He named his wife, Marjorie as next of kin. Nott was posted as a radiologist with 2/2nd AGH and after several periods of leave embarked on HMT Torusess for Kantara, Egypt, on the 15th April 1940. He was immediately detached to 61 General Hospital, a British hospital, in Nazareth.  He returned to duties at 2/2nd AGH in June 1941.  Nott was confirmed in the rank of lieutenant colonel on 19th July 1941. He returned to Adelaide, on the USS Mount Vernon, on 10th March 1942, and detached from 2/2nd AGH for special duties returning to his unit, now in Australia, 14 days later.  He was posted as MO to 22nd Bn in QLD, from 1st November 1943, for one month, when he was deployed to Townsville.  Nott required to be admitted for investigation in several military hospitals from 29th July 1944 until 14th August 1944; he was subsequently diagnosed with a tumour of the palate. Nott, initially was sent to the Memorial Hospital, in Adelaide, then to 105 AMH and to Kapara to convalesce. Nott was appointed to 128 AGH, as a radiologist on his recovery, on 1st November 1944. Then, unfortunately, e was re-admitted to 105 AMH, with an inguinal hernia, on 24th November 1945. He was posted as MO to SA L of C area on discharge from the hospital. Nott was discharged in January 1946, and placed on the Reserve of Officers list. He was awarded the Efficiency Decoration. After the war, he had some difficulty in receiving his Africa Star which eventually was issued after recognition of his service in the appropriate war arenas.

Nott continued with his radiology practice on his return from the war. He was a more than a competent golfer, winning trophies at the Royal Adelaide Golf Club and, on one occasion, qualified and played in the British Open. He married twice and lived in Palm Beach NSW with his second wife and, in about 1969, returned to Adelaide. Harry Carew Nott died on the 3rd January 1973. He was survived by his second wife, his two daughters from the first marriage and a son from the second.

Source

Blood, Sweat and Fears III: Medical Practitioners South Australia, who Served in World War 2. 

Swain, Jelly, Verco, Summers. Open Books Howden, Adelaide 2019. 

Uploaded by Annette Summers AO RFD

"...Captain Harry Carew Nott, Regimental Medical Officer, 10th Battalion from Mitcham, South Australia during the battalion's four-day rest on Imbros Island. He has grown a beard and is holding a pipe. Capt Nott was a 26 year old medical practitioner when he received a commission in the AIF on 20 August 1914 and embarked for overseas from Adelaide on 20 October 1914 aboard HMAT Ascanius. While serving at Gallipoli he was taken ill and evacuated to Egypt and then returned to Australia for medical treatment on 23 June 1916. He arrived back in England on 1 February 1917 and served on the Western Front with the 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station and the 10th Battalion. He was promoted to Major on 14 November 1917 and to Lieutenant Colonel on 25 July 1918. After returning to Australia on 14 September 1920, he went on to also serve in the Second World War." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)

Extract from “The Fighting 10th”, Adelaide, Webb & Son, 1936 by C.B.L. Lock; kindly supplied courtesy of the 10th Bn AIF Association Committee, April 2015. 

Born 1 August 1888 at Walkerville, South Australia.

Son of Albert Edward Nott, who for many years was Manager of the South Australian Brewing Co.

He was educated at St Peter’s College and the University of Adelaide, where, after a successful scholastic career, he graduated in the Faculty of Medicine, the degrees of MB, BS, being conferred on him in 1913.

He was appointed a Captain (provisionally) in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) on 3 August 1914, and held this commission at the time of joining the AIF.

On 20 August 1914 he was appointed a Captain in the AIF, and posted to the AAMC, and attached to the original 10th Battalion at Morphettville as Medical Officer.

During August and September 1914, his time was fully occupied in medically examining recruits for the 10th Battalion.

He embarked with the original 10th Battalion on HMAT A11 Ascanius on 20 October 1914, and accompanied the 10th to Egypt.   With Captain E T Brennan, Senior Medical Officer on the Ascanius, he experienced a busy time in inoculating and vaccinating the men of the 10th and 11th Battalions.

He subsequently proceeded to the Dardanelles, and landed at Anzac on 25 April 1915, and that day established an aid-post in Monash Valley, immediately behind the firing-lie.

On 18 July 1915, he evacuated sick, and proceeded to Egypt, where he was admitted to the 19th General Hospital at Alexandria, and subsequently transferred to No.1 Australian General Hospital at Heliopolis, where he remained a week before re-embarking for the Dardanelles.

He arrived back at Anzac on 16 August 1915 and resumed duties as Medical Officer of the Battalion.

On 2 September 1915, when the health of the 10th Battalion troops became very bad, and an average of ten men per day were evacuating with dysentery, he forwarded a report to Lieutenant-Colonel S P Weir for transmission to the Assistant Director of Medical Services, pointing out the poor health of the men, and suggesting the change of food and rest were urgently needed.

On 29 September 1915 he was invalided a second time from the Peninsula, and proceeded to Egypt, arriving at Alexandria on 2 October 1915.   He remained in Egypt until 3 January 1916, when he embarked for South Australia.

On 22 February 1916 at Adelaide, he married Marjory, daughter of William Lowe, there being two children from this union.

After three months’ rest in Adelaide he returned to Egypt, and later that year proceeded to England, where he became attached to the 3rd Training Battalion on Salisbury Plain, where on 14 November 1916 he was promoted to rank of Major.

On 4 January 1917 he arrived in France, where he was attached to the 2nd Field Ambulance at Bapaume, where he remained until 25 July 1918.

He was then promoted to the temporary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and transferred to Rouen as C.O. of the 1st Australian General Hospital.

On 11 November 1918, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and transferred to Le Havre as C.O. of the 1st Australian Convalescent Depot.  He retained this appointment until the depot was ultimately disbanded, but for several months afterwards he was retained as Senior Medical Officer at the Australian Base at Le Havre, and in that capacity controlled the medical side of the evacuation of the AIF troops until the last Australian soldier had crossed the English Channel in June 1919.

He then proceeded to London, and obtained extended leave, which enabled him to commence studies at the University of Cambridge under the Commonwealth Vocational Training Scheme.

In 1920 he obtained the Diploma of Medical Radiology and Electrology, and subsequently embarked on the Wahehe (late Marella), arriving back in Adelaide on 19 October 1920.

His services with the AIF terminating shortly after.

On 1 September 1921 he was appointed a Senior Specialist with the rank of Major in the AAMC, and on 1 April 1922 was placed on the Reserve of Officers with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

On 1 July 1925 he was attached to the AAMC Reserve, 4th Military District.

In 1921 he was appointed Honorary Radiologist at the Adelaide Hospital, and was also radiologist at the Repatriation General Hospital at Keswick and a tutor in radiology at the University of Adelaide.

On 23 February 1922, at a meeting of the S.A. Branch of the British Medical Association, of which he was a member, he presented a paper entitled  “The treatment of malignant disease by radiation.”   After he had delivered same, Dr Bronte Sematon, the President, thanked him for his contribution, and expressed the opinion that his paper and the discussion which followed would tend to be more extensive use of radio-therapy by members of the branch.

In 1934 he proceeded to England, in order to keep abreast with medical and surgical science.

He was a member of the Royal Adelaide Gold Club, and for a number of years was keenly interested in amateur aviation.

He was and is an acknowledged X-Ray Specialist.

In 1935 he was practising at his surgery attached to his residence at 111 Hutt Street, Adelaide, SA.