Henry Kenneth Fry DSO (born 25 May 1886 North Adelaide, South Australia [1] [2] ) was a physician and anthropologist, and Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide.
Henry Kenneth Fry DSO (born 25 May 1886 North Adelaide, South Australia [1] [2] ) was a physician and anthropologist, and Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide.
He attended University of Adelaide and received his BSc 1905, MBBS 1908, MD 1934. [2] [3] He was a 1909 Rhodes Scholar (Balliol) [4] Obtained another BSc, and diplomas in public health and anthropology, in 1912. [2]
In 1913, Fry succeeded Herbert Basedow as chief medical inspector of Aborigines, based in Darwin. [1] [2]
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, he was appointed captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force, and served in Gallipoli. [2] In France in 1916, he became deputy assistant director of medical services (D.A.D.M.S.), 2nd Division, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for supervising the evacuation of the wounded while under constant shell-fire at Pozières and Sausage Valley in July–August of that year. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1917, and given command of the 13th Field Ambulance.
He returned to Australia in 1918, where he married Dorothy Editha Deeley with Anglican rites at the Church of the Epiphany, Crafers on 21 October 1918. [2] However, by January 1919 he was back in France as temporary colonel and A.D.M.S., 5th Division. His A.I.F. appointment terminated on 26 December. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches. [2]
In 1920 Fry established a private practice in Eastwood in a house of his own design which incorporated a surgery, laboratory and one of the first X-ray units in the State. [2] He began lecturing in materia medica and therapeutics in the neurology department at the university. He was also an honorary physician at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and an official visitor to Parkside Mental Hospital. In 1923 he joined the Royal Society of South Australia (of which he would later serve as President in 1939).
In 1926 Fry was a founder member of the Board for Anthropological Research, along with Draper Campbell, [5] (Sir) John Cleland, [6] Frederic Wood Jones, [7] Robert Henry Pulleine, [8] and Archibald Watson. [9] His anthropological work took him on numerous medical, ethnological, and anthropological research expeditions to Aboriginal lands in Central Australia between 1929 and 1937. Beginning in 1930 he published over twenty scientific papers on Aboriginal kinship, psychology and mythology.
Moving to Crafers in 1937, he was appoint public health officer for the City of Adelaide, a position he occupied part-time. [1] In 1939, as well as acting as President of the Royal Society of South Australia, he was a founding fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
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