Person
Birrell, John Henry Winter (1924 - 2003)
OAM ISO
- Born
- 29 December 1924
St Kilda, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 25 March 2003
- Occupation
- Physician
Summary
John Birrell was police surgeon 1957-1977. He campaigned for road safety and was involved in the introduction of seatbelt laws and the blood alcohol limit of 0.05 per cent in Victoria.
Details
Chronology
- 1942 - 1943
- Military service - Second World War. Served in the Australian Imperial Force
- 1952 - 1956
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Victoria
- 1952 - 1956
- Career position - Lecturer in Pathology, University of Melbourne
- 1956 - 1957
- Career position - Assistant Coroner's Pathologist
- 1957 - 1977
- Career position - Police Surgeon in Victoria
- 1967 - 1977
- Career position - Member of the International Committee for Alcohol and Traffic Safety
- 1977
- Career position - Chairman, 7th Conference on Alcohol and traffic Safety in Melbourne
- 1978
- Award - Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) - Police Surgeon in Victoria
- 1997
- Award - Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) - In recognition of service to medicine and the community through the introduction of measures to reduce alcohol related road trauma and as an advocate of child abuse as a significant social problem
- 2001
- Award - Centenary Medal - For service to the community through road safety
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- Biographical cuttings on Dr John Henry Winter Birrell, police surgeon, Cuttings Files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Books
- Birrell, J. H. W., Twenty Years as a Police Surgeon (Ringwood: Brolga Publishing, 2004), 104 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Birrell, J., 'Mollison, Crawford Henry (1863-1949), medical and forensic pathologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 540-541. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100530b.htm. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Gibb, Donald, 'Obituary: John Henry Winter Birrell, OAM, Former police surgeon, general practitioner', The Age (2003). Details
Resources
- CA 2002, 2 Echelon, Army Headquarters; CA 46, Department of Defence [III], Central Office, 'NAA: B883, VX93969', B883 Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=6053165. Details
- 'Birrell, John (19241229-20030325)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-615382. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 28 November 2003, Last modified: 15 June 2022