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Eric Leo Susman was born in Sydney on 7 March 1896. After leaving Sydney Church of England Grammar School, he enlisted in the First AIF as a private in September 1914 and was wounded at Gallipoli in the following year. He rejoined his unit after ten weeks in hospital in Egypt and remained at Gallipoli until the evacuation. His medical career was again interrupted by the 1939-45 War when he served as surgeon lieutenant commander on HMAS Westralia.
Susman's medical curriculum vitae was not exceptional. He entered the faculty of medicine at the University of Sydney after he was repatriated in 1916, graduated in 1921 and serv...