MACKENZIE, William Colin

Book of Remembrance entry

Not listed on the University of Melbourne Roll of Active Service, appears on 1916 Trinity College Roll of Service as giving Home Service.During World War I MacKenzie spent three years in England (1915-17) at the Royal College of Surgeons, where he assisted (Sir) Arthur Keith to catalogue specimens of war wounds for the army and to bring out a new edition of Treves's Surgical Applied Anatomy. In 1917 he had a chance to test his principles of muscle rest and re-education on patients of a different kind, when Robert Jones, now inspector of military orthopaedics, asked him to set up a unit at the Military Orthopaedic Hospital, Shepherd's Bush. As a result, he was commissioned by the War Office to write a paper on 'Military orthopaedic hospitals' (British Medical Journal, May 1917). FROM ADB entry

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1877

Birth in Kilmore -- VIC, Australia 9 March 1877
1898

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1898
1901

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1901
1902

Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1902
1902

Honorary Demonstrator in Anatomy at Parkville -University of Melbourne- VIC, Australia 1902
1903

Resident House Surgeon at Melbourne -- VIC, Australia 1903
1903

Member of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh since 1903
1918

Established Australian Institute of Anatomical Research Also a museum 1918 at 612 St Kilda Road : Melbourne [ VIC Australia ]
1929

Appointed K.B.E. 1929
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Senior Resident Surgeon at Melbourne -- VIC, Australia
1938

Death in Kew -- VIC, Australia 29 June 1938

Gender

Male