Albert Coates (surgeon)
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Sir Albert Ernest Coates OBE, FRCS was an Australian surgeon and soldier. He served as a medical orderly in World War I serving on Gallipoli, and as a senior surgeon for the Australian Army Medical Co
Lieutenant Colonel Albert Coates at the Recovered Allied Prisoner-of-War and Internees Unit in 1945
The operating theatre at the prisoner-of-war hospital, Nakom Paton, Thailand, where Coates was Chief Medical Officer.
Lieutenant-Colonel E.E. ‘Weary’ Dunlop and Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Coates at Nakhon Pathom hospital camp, Thailand. Both are looking at sketches made by British artist Jack Bridger Chalker. While Dunlop was the senior officer at Nakhon Pathom, he deferred to Coates’ extensive medical knowledge. Coates had served during World War I and was also well-known and respected among prisoners of war.
Albert Coates Lane, Melbourne
Leslie Morshead
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Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead, was an Australian soldier, teacher, businessman, and farmer, whose military career spanned both world wars. During the Second World War, he led the Austra
Leslie Morshead in 1941
Morshead (right) at Lone Pine after the Battle of Lone Pine
Morshead as a lieutenant colonel in the AIF.
Group of staff officers of the 2nd Division at Victoria Barracks, Paddington, January 1937. Sat on the extreme left in the front row is Colonel Leslie Morshead.