My father, born in Foxboro, ON, enlisted in the British Army in 1939. Although he had a medical degree, he enlisted as a Private as he did not want to be in England for the War, but, rather, on the front lines with the troops. On leave in France at the time, he was discovered to be a physician at Dunkirk where he had stayed to treat the wounded being ultimately evacuated out of Cherbourg 10 days later.
After the Quebec Conference, he then volunteered for service in Burma as Medical Officer, Commanding Officer Brig General Orde Wingate.
To read the Medical Report from the Report on Operations, Feb-June, 1943, 77th Indian Infantry Regiment, please visit http://www.glanmore.org/gvf/jri1.html. Also, on this page are links to a speech by Brig Michael Calvert entitled "Jungle Medicine". the 5307th Provisionals (Merrill's Marauders, American Chindits, and No 1 Air Command, USAF who flew into impossible places to evacuate the wounded.
My father died on March 25, 1955 of a heart attack - his 3rd suffered after return from the War. He had acquired both malarias and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but never let that affect care of his patients. When it got "bad", he would shut down his practice and rent a cabin in the woods.
We had lived in Mexico during the 50's - my mother had taken my brother and I there after my father died - to study art. After we returned in 1962, the East Hill Bus Driver in Belleville (during the 60's) would always drop me off at my front door, rather than corner, in honor of my father as a family member had been one of his patients. People in Belleville, ON, where we lived, would stop me on the street and say things like: "You're Doctor Faulkner's daughter? Your father came to my house at 2 o'clock in the morning and saved my child's life."
I remember him taking me on housecalls with him, picking me up when I fell down a flight of stairs, I remember him.
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George Faulkner, my father
My father, born in Foxboro, ON, enlisted in the British Army in 1939. Although he had a medical degree, he enlisted as a Private as he did not want to be in England for the War, but, rather, on the front lines with the troops. On leave in France at the time, he was discovered to be a physician at Dunkirk where he had stayed to treat the wounded being ultimately evacuated out of Cherbourg 10 days later.
After the Quebec Conference, he then volunteered for service in Burma as Medical Officer, Commanding Officer Brig General Orde Wingate.
To read the Medical Report from the Report on Operations, Feb-June, 1943, 77th Indian Infantry Regiment, please visit
http://www.glanmore.org/gvf/jri1.html. Also, on this page are links to a speech by Brig Michael Calvert entitled "Jungle Medicine". the 5307th Provisionals (Merrill's Marauders, American Chindits, and No 1 Air Command, USAF who flew into impossible places to evacuate the wounded.
My father died on March 25, 1955 of a heart attack - his 3rd suffered after return from the War. He had acquired both malarias and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but never let that affect care of his patients. When it got "bad", he would shut down his practice and rent a cabin in the woods.
We had lived in Mexico during the 50's - my mother had taken my brother and I there after my father died - to study art. After we returned in 1962, the East Hill Bus Driver in Belleville (during the 60's) would always drop me off at my front door, rather than corner, in honor of my father as a family member had been one of his patients. People in Belleville, ON, where we lived, would stop me on the street and say things like: "You're Doctor Faulkner's daughter? Your father came to my house at 2 o'clock in the morning and saved my child's life."
I remember him taking me on housecalls with him, picking me up when I fell down a flight of stairs, I remember him.