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Yeatman, Charleton
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Qualifications
OBE MB BS Adel (1910) MRACP (1938)
Born
27/07/1887
Died
04/02/1959
Charleton Yeatman was the eldest son of Dr JW Yeatman MRCS,LRCP of Auburn, SA and his wife Maude (nee Browne). Growing up in a small country town he early learned to ride and was taught Greek, Latin and manners by his spinster great-aunt. His proper schooling was at St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he excelled at athletics and also as a scholar. At Adelaide University he played a part in the first student union, and won several cups for athletics. After graduating MB BS in 1910 he spent two years as RMO at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Adelaide Children's Hospital, and then followed Trent Champion de Crespigny as medical superintendent of the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1913. These were excellent opportunities to practise surgery and he used them. He married Mignonette Des Vignes Jacob, a gold medallist of the nursing school, and a granddaughter of John Jacob, from Hampshire, one of South Australia's early pioneers.
Charleton enlisted in the AIF in 1915 and was posted to field hospitals in Egypt and in France, where his surgical skills were further developed. Later he was appointed CO of the Australian Army's base hospital at Harefield, Middlesex, and became the youngest lieutenant-colonel in the Australian Army. This hospital was based on a spacious house and grounds which, after the 1914-18 War, became a famous chest hospital. For this work he was awarded an OBE. On returning to Australia in 1919 he joined Dr Goode in general practice in Port Pirie. In 1928 he moved to Mount Gambier and in 1934 he joined a two-man partnership in general practice in Unley, Adelaide. This was expanded to a four man group before the outbreak of war in 1939, and included a qualified surgeon, Dr JL Steele Scott. In 1938 he passed the first membership examination of the newly founded Royal Australasian College of Physicians thus becoming one of the original Members. By this time he had four children, three sons and a daughter. With the outbreak of the Second World War two partners enlisted, SL Seymour, who was killed at El Alamein, and NJ Bonnin FRACS. This left Scott and Yeatman to shoulder a very heavy work-load for the duration of the War. The end of hostilities brought him an opportunity to command 130 Australian General Hospital in Japan, which served the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. Living conditions were primitive and it was a strenuous assignment for a man of fifty-nine years. He stayed for about a year.
Return to general practice was made less burdensome by the advent of two younger partners, his eldest son, John Charleton Yeatman and G.McL Turnbull. Yeatman senior began to enjoy some club life and saw service on the branch council of the BMA. His death came on 4 February 1959 within twenty-four hours of a massive stroke.
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JC YEATMAN
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May 30, 2018, 17:35 PM
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