1. John Forfar served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War and later became a leading civilian paediatrician.
28 Facts About John Forfar
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John Forfar was Professor of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh from 1964 to 1982.
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John Forfar was President of the British Paediatric Association from 1985 to 1988, and was instrumental in the founding of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
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John Forfar's father was a minister of the Church of Scotland.
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John Forfar was educated at Perth Academy, a selective school in Perth.
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John Forfar studied medicine at the University of St Andrews.
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John Forfar graduated in 1941 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.
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On 21 February 1942, John Forfar was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, as a lieutenant.
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John Forfar briefly served with the 11th Field Ambulance, before attending the Commando Training Centre in Achnacarry, Scotland.
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John Forfar then joined No 47 Commando as the battalion's medical officer.
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John Forfar would serve with them for eleven months from the Normandy Landings to Victory in Europe.
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On 6 June 1944, John Forfar joined the Allied troops landing on the Normandy beaches.
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John Forfar became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1947 and Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1948.
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John Forfar was appointed senior lecturer in Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh.
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In 1960, John Forfar was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.
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John Forfar joined the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh in 1964 as a Consultant Paediatrician.
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John Forfar became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1964.
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John Forfar retired in 1982 and was appointed professor emeritus.
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John Forfar served on the committees of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and of London.
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John Forfar was an elected member of the General Medical Council from 1984 to 1986.
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John Forfar was president of the British Paediatric Association from 1985 to 1988.
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John Forfar then lobbied for the recognition of the Association as a Royal College and finally succeeded when it became the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1996.
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John Forfar was a medical doctor and they met while studying at the University of St Andrews.
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John Forfar died in Edinburgh on 14 August 2013, aged 96.
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On 22 March 1945, it was gazetted that John Forfar had been awarded the Military Cross and had been mentioned in dispatches 'in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe'.
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John Forfar was mentioned in dispatches by Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks for his role in the treatment of wounded Royal Marines during the assault on Port-en-Bessin in 1944.
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John Forfar was the 1983 James Spence Medallist, the highest awarded of the British Paediatrics Association.
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John Forfar received the Royal Marine Historical Society Award in 2005.