Friday, September 13, 2013

Black, George Duncan Ralph (1917-d.1941, HK)

updated November 17, 2013

d. December 25, 1941, Hong Kong. MB, CM, MD (Tor.). June 9, 1905. Registered to practice Hong Kong April 27, 1917 through EOP. Private practitioner 1917-EOP, founder, Drs. Black, Balean, Skinn & Talbot, address 1: Alexandra Building 1917; address 2: Union Building 1922-41. BMA 1908. Lecturer in Practical Anatomy, HKCMC 1909-12. President, HKBMA 1934-36. Medical Board 1923-25. Dental Board 1918-EOP. Chieftain, Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society 1925-26, 1939-40. RAMC, Major 1941. HKVDC, Surgeon Lieutenant January 30, 1912; Principal Medical Officer; Lieutenant-Colonel. Honors: OBE, Military Division 1935; King's Silver Jubilee Medal 1935; VD.

m. Anne Lilian Black; Nursing Detachment, HKVDC, nurse ND14. fa/o Alison Black; Nursing Detachment, HKVDC, nurse ND6.

[Black was in charge of a temporary military hospital established at the beginning of the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941 inside St. Stephen’s College in Stanley. He was killed by Japanese troop storming the hospital in the early morning of Christmas Day 1941.]

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 9, 1912, #39; April 27, 1917, #184; March 16, 1923, #113; May 18, 1923, #235; May 6, 1935, #362; May 9, 1941, #558.

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