Papers of Allan Vickers, 1930-1967 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 2618910
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Vickers, Allan, 1901-1967
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Description:
-
- [1930-1967]
- 80 cm., (43 folders, 2 albums, box of slides).
- Summary:
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Diaries from 1930 to 1967; notebooks, minutes, reports, cuttings, correspondence and notes on the Flying Doctor Service arranged by year; patient records; subject files; maps, including Inlander map of 1922; papers on the R.F.D.S. stamp; publicity material; articles on John Flynn and George Simpson; photographs, news cuttings (including 22 cuttings albums) and printed matter.
- Biography/History:
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From 1931 to 1934 Vickers was the Aerial Service doctor at Cloncurry, the fifth of John Flynn's flying doctors. From 1934 to 1939 he worked for the State Government in Western Australia and established a flying doctor base at Port Hedland in 1935. From 1943, after army service in Perth, he ran Queensland's second F.D.S. base at Charleville. In 1955, after an attempt to start a British Empire Flying Doctor Service, he became suprintendent of the Queensland Section of F.D.S., retiring in 1966.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference: MS 6234.
- Cited In:
- Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; D1161
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Preliminary list (2 p.) available.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1930-1967
- Occupation:
- Doctors
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2037 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Photograph
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1967
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1967
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