Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - ObstetricsHistoryEducated at schools in Brisbane and Sydney and a graduate of Edinburgh and licenciate of Dublin, where he worked for three years, Allan was in the Royal Army Medical Corps and later the A.I.F. during World War I. After a period of private practice and hospital work as a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Brisbane, he was appointed Director of Obstetrical Research at the University of Melbourne in 1925, funded by a gift to endow such research from the Trustees of the Edward Wilson (Argus) Fund.
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