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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-12-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001298b.htm person McDonald Sydney Fancourt FRACP FRCP AACR2 18 November 1885 8 August 1947 Place of Birth Rocklea, Queensland, Australia Place of Death Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Paediatrician Sydney McDonald had a distinguished medical career in clinical paediatrics and wrote numerous important articles in the field. He started his medical career at the Queen's Memorial Infectious Diseases and the Alfred Hospitals in Victoria. Then in 1912 he was appointed Assistant Senior Resident Surgeon at the Children's Hospital. In late 1914 McDonald moved to England to further his studies, but when World War I broke out he enlisted as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. McDonald served in several military hospitals and clearing stations and finally returned to Australia in 1919c where he worked at Queensland's Hospital for Sick Children from 1920. He also kept up his military service and held many posts including medical examiner for the Royal Australian Air Force. Sydney McDonald was also heavily involved with many professional medical bodies and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Royal College of Physicians, London. 1904 1910 Career position - Second Lieutenant in the Australian Militia Engineers 1909 1909 Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB), University of Melbourne 1910 1910 Education - Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Melbourne 1910 1914 Career position - First Officer, then Major, in command of the Melbourne University Rifles 1912 1914 Career position - Assistant Senior Resident Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Melbourne 1913 1913 Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Melbourne 1914 1914 Career position - Resident Medical Officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London 1914 c. 1919 Career position - Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps with the 4th (British) General Hospital in Versailles (France), the 33rd and 51st Casualty Clearing Stations and the 46th Stationary Hospital 1919 Career position - Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London 1920 1923 Career position - Out-patient Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Brisbane 1923 Career position - Senior In-patient Physician at the Hospital for Sick Children 1923 1923 Career position - Physician at the Rosemount Military Hospital 1923 1944 Career position - Councillor of the British Medical Association, Queensland branch 1928 Career position - Chief Medical Examiner for the Department of Civil Aviation in Queensland 1928 Career position - Councillor of the Medical Defence Society of Queensland 1930 1930 Career position - President, British Medical Association, Queensland branch 1937 c. 1941 Career position - Wing Commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) 1938 1938 Award - Foundation Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) 1938 1938 Career position - First Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Queensland 1940 1940 Award - Fellow, Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), London 1940 1947 Career position - Consultant Physician at Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital 1941 Career position - Group Captain of the medical branch of the RAAF 1944 1946 Career position - Member of the Faculty of Medicine Board, University of Queensland 1946 Career position - Chair of the advisory committee on paediatric studies within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), Commonwealth of Australia (1921 - )

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 McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885-1947)

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 'McDonald, Sydney Fancourt', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McDonald, Sydney Fancourt Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The Highest Traditions: a Biography of Sydney Fancourt McDonald Pearn, John Hemsley The Highest Traditions: a Biography of Sydney Fancourt McDonald Brisbane Department of Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital 1985 Book Section: McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885-1947), paediatrician and army doctor Pearn, John Hemsley McDonald, Sydney Fancourt (1885-1947), paediatrician and army doctor Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1986 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 254-255