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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2026-01-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003850b.htm person Peel John Clifford AACR2 17 April 1894 19 September 1918 Place of Birth Inverleigh, Victoria, Australia Place of Death France Medical student Clifford Peel, a Victorian medical student, suggested to the Reverend John Flynn (qv), then superintendent of the Australian Inland Mission, that aerial ambulances would solve the problem of providing rapid medical services to the outback (1917). Peel, a member of the Australian Flying Corps, was killed in France before his ideas were realised. 1917 Education - Medical student, University of Melbourne 1914 1914 Career event - Second Lieutenant, Melbourne University Rifles 1917 1918 Military service - First World War. Second Lieutenant, Australian Flying Corp [Killed in action, whilst on photographic reconnaissance] Flynn, John (1880 - 1951)

Clifford Peel suggested the idea of aerial ambulances to John Flynn in 1917.

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 'Peel, John Clifford (Clifford)', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Peel, John Clifford (Clifford) Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch Book: Australian inventions and innovations Ingpen, Robert Australian inventions and innovations Rigby Publishers Limited 1982 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000