Person
Gurner, Colin Marshall (1919 - 2006)
AO CBE
- Born
- 26 December 1919
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 13 September 2006
- Occupation
- Army officer, Medical practitioner and Radiologist
Summary
Colin M. Gurner was a medical practitioner and radiologist whose early career was at the Royal Adelaide and Adelaide Children's Hospitals and in private practice. Before that he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps during WWII, joining the Citizen Military Forces (CMF) after being discharged. Between 1951 and 1960 he was in partnership with his father, Colin Gurner, and J. Stanley Verco and Peter Verco in Adelaide. In 1960 Gurner joined the regular army as Deputy Director-General of Medical Services, and for the next 20 years was primarily involved with military planning and the provision of advise to government. He frequently made official visits overseas, including annually to Vietnam during that conflict. Increasingly he was concerned with the problems associated with conscription, resistant malaria and casualty evacuation. Gurner retired as Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Forces in 1979. Until he finally retired from medical practice he was involved with assessing the medical issues of intending immigrants, as Medical Director of the Australian Kidney Foundation, and with the Australian Defence Force Academy. Gurner was active in the College of Radiologists of Australasia, serving as President from 1971 to 1972. In 2003 he published a well-received history of the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps from the close of WWII.
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Chronology
- 1939
- Career event - Joined the Citizen Military Force
- 1942
- Education - MB BS, University of Adelaide
- 1942 - 1943
- Career position - Intern, Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1943 - 1946
- Career event - Served with the Australian Army Medical Corps
- 1946 - 1948
- Career position - Surgical registrar (later radium officer), Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1948 - 1950
- Career position - Medical officer, radiology department, Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1948 - 1960
- Career position - Member, Citizen Military Forces
- 1950
- Education - Member, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1950 - 1951
- Career position - Fellow in Radiation Therapy, Memorial Cancer Centre, New York, U.S.A.
- 1951
- Education - Diploma of the American Board of Radiology (Radiation Therapy)
- 1951 - 1960
- Career position - Partner in Verco radiology practice: J. S. Verco, P. W. Verco and C. Gurner snr
- 1952 - 1960
- Career position - Assistant honorary in radiology, Adelaide Children's Hospital
- 1952 - 1960
- Career position - Assistant honorary in radiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital
- 1957 - 1972
- Award - Fellow, College of Radiologists of Australasia
- 1960 - 1967
- Career position - Deputy Director-General Medical Services, Australian Army
- 1967 - ?
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators
- 1967 - 1977
- Career position - Director-General Medical Services, Australian Army
- 1969
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1969
- Award - Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1969 - 2006
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
- 1969 - 2006
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- 1971 - 1972
- Career position - President, College of Radiologists of Australasia
- 1972 - 1998
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Radiologists
- 1972 - 2006
- Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom
- 1975 - 1977
- Career position - Joint Services Medical Advisor
- 1977 - 1979
- Career position - Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Forces
- 1978
- Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to the medical branch of the Defence Force
- 1979
- Career event - Retired from the Australian Defence Forces
- 1979 - 1984
- Career position - Chairman, Medical Board, Australian Capital Territory
- 1980 - 1984
- Career position - Commissioner, ACT Sub-district, St John Ambulance Brigade
- 1980 - 1985
- Career position - Medical Officer, Department of Health, Australian Capital Territory
- 1982 - 1985
- Career position - Medical Director (part-time), Australian Kidney Foundation
- 1985 - 1987
- Career event - In private practice
- 1987 - 1993
- Career position - Radiologist, Australian Defence Force Academy
- 1991
- Award - Member of the Most Venerable Order Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (KStJ)
- 1993
- Career event - Retired from medical practice
- 1998 - 2006
- Award - Fellow, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists
Related entries
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Published resources
Books
- Gurner, Colin M., The Royal Australian Army Medical Corps: 1945-1975 (Prahran East: 2003), 137 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Gurner, C. M., 'Butler, Arthur Graham (1872-1949)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 502-503. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070507b.htm. Details
- Gurner, C. M., 'Jeffries, Lewis Wibmer (1884-1971), Medical Practitioner and Soldier' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 475-476. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090467b.htm. Details
- Gurner, C. M., 'Thompson, Clive Wentworth (1882-1941), medical practitioner and soldier' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 206-207. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120224b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Hare, W. S. C., 'Colin Marshall Gurner, AO, CBE (1919 - 2006)', Australasian radiology 51(2):119-200, 51 (2) (2007), 199-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1673.2007.01708.x. Details
See also
- Who's who in Australia 1995 (Melbourne: Information Australia Group, 1995), 1622 pp. Details
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 'Gurner, Colin Marshall (1919 - 2006)', College roll, Royal Australian College of Physicians, Sydney, 2020, https://www.racp.edu.au/about/our-heritage/college-roll/college-roll-bio/gurner-colin-marshall. https://www.racp.edu.au/about/our-heritage/college-roll. Details
- Ryan, James, Sutton, Keith and Baigent, Malcolm eds, Australasian Radiology: a History (Sydney: McGraw-Hill, 1996), 542 pp. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 3 October 2023