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About Kevin Fagan (doctor)
- Dr Kevin James Fagan AO (5 February 1909 - 1992) was an Australian doctor and World War II hero. After attending St Ignatius' College, Riverview on a bursary, Fagan was Dux of the School in both 1925 and 1926, enabling him to study Medicine at the University of Sydney.
- He lived on campus at St John's College, University of Sydney from 1927-32.After graduation, he returned to Tasmania and became Superintendent of Hobart General Hospital in 1937.
- Shortly after the outbreak of World War II he joined the Army Medical Corps and was posted to Singapore in 1942 with the 8th Division.
- He was soon a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, first in Changi and later on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway.An outstanding surgeon, he was every bit as influential in his care of the sick and injured soldiers as the high-profile Sir Weary Dunlop.
- One of many testimonies from the Australian War Memorial reads: 'To many an unfortunate digger and others who rolled and tossed and cried out with the well nigh insufferable agony of those…..
- ulcers came a man who ceased suffering and pain and taking limbs off in many cases he put them on the road to home again.
- Yes Major Fagan, the diggers’ children will hear your name spoken with feelings of gratitude for many a long day to come.
- For the noble work you did, your name will be memorable'.
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