A CANTERBURY TALE: The Autobiography of Dr Francis Bennett 1980 1st edition

A CANTERBURY TALE: The Autobiography of Dr Francis Bennett

by Dr Francis Bennett

DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 0195580656
Format: small hardcover with dust jacket
Published: Oxford University Press 1980, 1st edition
Size (mm): 160 w x 245 h x 20 h
Pages: 249
SKU: A4/2408/0365/K574

ABOUT
Francis Oswald Bennett OBE 1898 – 1976 was a New Zealand medical doctor, military medical administrator and writer.

This tells of his country childhood, the years at medical school in Dunedin, and his uncertain beginning as a general practitioner during the Depression, in the mining towns of the West Coast. After his return to Christchurch in the mid 1930s, his professional reputation steadily increased. He also tells of his service in both World Wars, in the first as a private, trying to get to France before the fighting stopped; and in the second in command of a hospital ship in the British Pacific Fleet, which played a crucial role in the rescue of British POWs from Japanese internment camps.

Includes monochrome images.

CONDITION
Immaculate with light wear on dust jacket, light wear on end papers, page as new. Images depict all need to know detail.

REMARKS
Scarce