"BELOVED PHYSICIAN"
NEW ZEALANDER IN IRAK
ARABS MOURN DEATH
BASRAH, March 24.
Dr. David Borrie, a New Zealander, director of the Maude Memorial Hospital, aied here. Since the war ho had earned a remarkable reputation, and was known, as " Tho Beloved Physician" among the Arabs and Indians, from, whom lie refused to take fees. Thousands attended his funeral.
Dr. Borrie operated on Elliott, Sir Alan Cobham's engineer, -when ho-was shot during a flight to Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 13
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