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ANZAC Day 2021: The War Service of St Andrew’s Doctors

A.C Wright, our Faculty Head (Arts) and Acting Archivist, has composed a piece remembering the service of the medical students and doctors who went from St Andrew’s College to wars, distant and near. As Wright says, ‘their story of war tells of both breaking bodies and binding wounds.’

You can read his synopsis here.

Written specifically in honour of ANZAC Day 2021, it will be shared with attendees at our annual ANZAC Day Chapel service today at 11am.

They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.”

First photo: Lt. Col. Dr. Sir Angus Johnston Murray, OBE, (1896–1968) who succeeded Col. Kay in command of the 2/5 A.G.H. Pictured here with the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service before their departure for New Guinea.

Second photo: Colonel Dr. William Elphinstone Kay, DSO, VD (1888–1941). He is pictured here in Palestine with Matron Kathleen Best in Palestine 1941, shortly before their posting to Athens. William studied medicine in College 1906 to 1911.