Bridge, Reginald Harold (1888 - 1944)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E003902 - Bridge, Reginald Harold (1888 - 1944)

Title
Bridge, Reginald Harold (1888 - 1944)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E003902

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2013-04-22

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Bridge, Reginald Harold (1888 - 1944), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Bridge, Reginald Harold

Date of Birth
25 April 1888

Place of Birth
Sydney, Australia

Date of Death
22 August 1944

Occupation
Urologist

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS 9 June 1915
 
FRCS 3 December 1915
 
MB ChM Sydney 1912
 
FRACS 1929

Details
Born at Sydney on 25 April 1888, son of Clarence Bridge, a woolbroker, and Helen MacMahon, his wife. Educated at St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney 1901-06 and at Sydney University 1907-11, he was a student of the first clinical school at Sydney Hospital 1909 and graduated with honours at the beginning of 1912. From January to November 1912 he was junior resident medical officer and throughout 1913 senior RMO and in 1914 registrar at Sydney Hospital. He then came to England, was attached to the Middlesex Hospital, and took the Membership on 9 June and the Fellowship on 9 December 1915. He served in the RAMC at No 3 General Hospital, Basra, Mesopotamia, during the war, but went back to Australia in 1919 and practised at Sydney as a consultant urologist. He was assistant surgeon 1920-30 and urological surgeon 1930-44 at Sydney Hospital. He also served on the hospital's board of medical studies, and was urologist to the Sydney Women's Hospital and to the Balmain and District Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Urological Society of Australasia, of which he became president in 1937. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons on 5 March 1929. Bridge married in 1927 Una, daughter of Walter Kleemo of Sydney, who survived him but without children. He practised at Locarno, 141 Macquarie Street, Sydney, and lived at 65 Wallaroy Road, Edgecliff. He died on 22 August 1944, aged 56. Publications:- The ureter; clinical study of its common diseases. *Med J Austral*. 1925, 1, 421. Some experiences of urologic practice. *Ibid*. 1928, 1, 103.

Sources
Information given by Captain C Bridge, RAN, through Miss N C Andrew, librarian RACS

Rights
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England

Collection
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Format
Obituary

Format
Asset

Asset Path
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003900-E003999

URL for File
376085

Media Type
Unknown