Person

Peel, John Clifford (Clifford) (1894 - 1918)

Born
17 April 1894
Inverleigh, Victoria, Australia
Died
19 September 1918
France
Occupation
Medical student

Summary

Clifford Peel, a Victorian medical student, suggested to the Reverend John Flynn (qv), then superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission, that aerial ambulances would solve the problem of providing rapid medical services to the outback (1917). Peel, a member of the Australian Flying Corps, was killed in France before his ideas were realised.

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Chronology

- 1917
Education - Medical student, University of Melbourne
1914
Career event - Second Lieutenant, Melbourne University Rifles
1917 - 1918
Military service - First World War. Second Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corp [Killed in action, whilst on photographic reconnaissance]

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See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_p.html. Details
  • Ingpen, Robert, Australian inventions and innovations (Rigby Publishers Limited, 1982), 80 pp. "The Pedal Wireless and Flying Doctor - 'The mantle of safety'" pp.64, 66. Details

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