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Hilary Roche was born at East Melbourne, Victoria, the only son of JF Roche, a prominent Melbourne company director. He was educated at Kew College, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne.
He acquired tuberculosis during his final years as a medical student, and as with many physicians of earlier generations, this probably influenced his choice of chest medicine as a career. He completed an RMO appointment at the Alfred Hospital in 1922 and acquired the MD in the same year. He was house physician at the Brompton Chest Hospital, London in 1923 and then spent several years in England and on the continent studying chest diseases...