Walker, William Delano

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Dr Willam D Walker was a diarist and photographer who aspired to use medicine as a means to an end, particularly “to pursue travel and natural history”.

He won the Medal of the Royal Photographic Society in London in September 1931 for his studies of Kangaroos and of Indigenous Australians. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29924417.

His papers are in the custody of the South Australian Museum - http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collections/information-resources/archives/walker-dr-william-delano-aa-357

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1897

Birth in Port Pirie -- SA, Australia 30 October 1897
1923

Tertiary education at Adelaide University, South Australia, SA, Australia 11 June 1923
1925

Tertiary education at Adelaide University, South Australia, SA, Australia 16 December 1925
1926

Resident Medical Officer at Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide -- SA, Australia 14 January 1926
1927

Resident Medical Officer at St Peters -- SA, Australia 17 February 1927
1932

Medical Practitioner at London --, England 28 January 1932
1938

Medical Practitioner at London --, England 10 January 1938
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Member of Royal Society of SA
1938

Death in Catterick -- York, England 6 September 1938

Gender

Male

From the archives

Student Card - Page 1 - W D Walker [ jpg ]

Student Card - Page 2 - W D Walker [ jpg ]

Student Card - Page 3 - W D Walker [ jpg ]

Student Card - Page 4 - W D Walker [ jpg ]

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