Aerial Ambulance.
DASH FROM LONDON TO PARIS. LONDON, August 14. An Australian, Sir Douglas Shields, figured in a sensational dash by air to Paris to save the life of Major Ottley, of the British Foreign Office, who was suddenly taken ill at the Supreme Council meeting. Sir Douglas Shields, after he had diagnosed t!ho trouble, returned with tiie patient to London by aerial ambulance and operated at Park lane. Major Ottley is progressing favourably. (Sir Douglas Shields is a graduate of the medical school of Melbourne Uniyer sity. Immediately upon receiving his degree he enlisted with the A.M.C. in the Boer War, and became prominent for the excellent work be did during a serious outbreak of mcask's on the returning transport Drayton Grange He practised in Melbourne until the outbreak of the great war, when he went to France, where he wag in charge of one of the Australian hospitals, receiving n knighthood for hH work. He has since been practising in London, j
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 2
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164Aerial Ambulance. Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 2
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