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Life Summary

Name	Sir Ernest Edward Dunlop
Born	12 July, 1907 Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Died	2 July, 1993 (aged 85) Prahran, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	pneumonia
Religious Influence	Anglican Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Mills, Frank Harland (friend) Clarke, Hugh Vincent (friend) Glenn, Joseph Robert Archibald (university friend) Coffey, William (acquaintance) Uren, Thomas (acquaintance)
Education *	Benalla High School (Vic) (student, 1919-1923) College of Pharmacy (Melbourne) (student, 1926-1928) University of Melbourne (student, 1929-1936) Ormond College (University of Melbourne) (student, 1930-1936)
Occupation or Descriptor *	Rugby Union player (1932-1934) Victoria, Australia army medical officer (1939-1945) Federal, Australia prisoner of war (Australian) (1942-1945) Federal, Australia surgeon (1947-1975) Victoria, Australia
Military Service *	World War II (army doctor) Battle of Tobruk, 1941 (army doctor) Burma-Thailand Railway POW camp (prisoner of war) Changi POW camp (prisoner of war) Fall of Singapore, 1942 (army doctor) Konyu River POW camp (prisoner of war)
Awards	H. T. Tompsitt Memorial Scholarship (recipient, 1928) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1947) Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (recipient, 1965) Knight Bachelor (recipient, 1969) Australian of the Year (recipient, 1976) Companion of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1987) Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame (inductee, 2008)
Legacies *	Dunlop (Canberra) (eponym) Weary Dunlop Boon Pong Exchange Fellowship (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Freemasons (member) Wallabies Australian rugby union team (player) Melbourne University Rugby Club (player, 1931-1934) Ex-Prisoners of War Relatives Association (Vic) (president, 1946-1989) Royal Australian College of Surgeons (fellow, 1948) Australian-Asian Association (president, 1963-1993) Prisoners of War Trust Fund (chair, 1968-1977) Victorian Foundation on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (president, 1970-1982) Anti-Cancer Council (Vic) (chairman of committee, 1974-1980)
Workplaces *	Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital (Melbourne) (consultant) Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (consultant) Royal Melbourne Hospital (honorary surgeon, 1947-1967)

* Dates are approximate