Papers [manuscript]. 1930-1967.

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Papers [manuscript]. 1930-1967.

Diaries from 1930 to 1967; notebooks, minutes, reports, cuttings, correspondence and notes on the Flying Doctor Service arranged by year; patient records; subject files; maps, including Inlander map of 1922; papers on the R.F.D.S. stamp; publicity material; articles on John Flynn and George Simpson; photographs, news cuttings (including 22 cuttings albums) and printed matter.

80 cm., + (43 folders, 2 albums, box of slides).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7074440

Libraries Australia

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Vickers, Allan, 1901-1967.

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From 1931 to 1934 Vickers was the Aerial Service doctor at Cloncurry, the fifth of John Flynn's flying doctors. From 1934 to 1939 he worked for the State Government in Western Australia and established a flying doctor base at Port Hedland in 1935. From 1943, after army service in Perth, he ran Queensland's second F.D.S. base at Charleville. In 1955, after an attempt to start a British Empire Flying Doctor Service, he became suprintendent of the Queensland Section of F.D.S., retiring in 1966. ...

Flynn, John, 1880-1951

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Rev. John Flynn joined the Home Missions staff of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1902. The activities of the Australian Inland Mission in the Northern Territory and adjacent sparsley populated areas were initiated and directed by Flynn for 39 years. In 1928 he founded the Aerial Medical Service (Flying Doctor Service). From the description of Letter of John Flynn, 1913-1916 [manuscript]. 1913-1916. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 458273716 From the descrip...

Royal flying doctor service of Australia

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Simpson, George, Sir, 1786 or 1787-1860

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Dr. Simpson was associated with Rev. John Flynn in organising the Flying Doctor Service in Australia. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1928-1959. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225819801 ...