biography
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Dunlop, (Ernest) Edward
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nickname Weary
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907–93)
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| biography:
| Army surgeon, born in Wangaratta, Victoria, SE Australia. An accomplished sportsman, he graduated from Melbourne University, enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1939, and in 1942, as a prisoner-of-war, was forced by the Japanese to work on the Burma–Siam Railway. Revered by his fellow prisoners, he ministered to the sick under appalling conditions, and was hailed as the ‘Christ of the Burma Road’. After the war he continued his work as a surgeon, and fostered Australian–Asian relations. Named Australian of the Year in 1977, by the time he died he was a national hero, and his ashes were scattered over the Burma railway by prime minister Paul Keating in 1994. |
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