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The Brisbane Clinic, a Specialist Medical Centre, Heritage Listed in 1992, was founded by Dr Jarvis Nye and designed by renowned Architect, Mr Raymond Nowland in 1930. Drs LJ Jarvis Nye, John Bostock and John Power used the American Mayo Clinic in Rochester, as a model to create an ultra-modern group practice of its time with shared facilities to provide the latest in diagnostics and treatment. It was the first of its kind in Australia. Dr Jarvis Nye had been a very successful practitioner in Atherton, with a largely surgical practice. He visited the Mayo Clinic for four months in 1924 and returned full of forward thinking ideas for the development of such a clinic in Brisbane. He met, by chance, a prominent Brisbane psychiatrist, Dr John Bostock. Using their own resources, they set about establishing the “Brisbane Clinic”. Source: brisbaneclinic.com.au/our-history/

A very brave Officer who was gassed during WW1 rushing to help victims of the first gas attack in 1915 in France where he worked in a British Field Hospital. In March 1916 he was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire}. He was invalided home to Australia in 1917. He was educated at Rockhampton and Brisbane Grammar Schools and studied medicine and surgery at the Sydney Medical School, Sydney University. www.adoptadigger.org

Nice portrait

I think this boy must have lied about being 18...

My Great Uncle i would like to know how you acquired this picture

Graham Jennings This photograph comes from The Queenslander newspaper, which published pictures of Queensland servicemen as they embarked for the First World War. Over the last 2 years, the State Library has been digitising all of these portraits - nearly 27 000. The image here in Flickr was created before this project and a better quality image is available on the State Library's website at hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/396744 You can also download a high resolution version of the image for free. Please don't hesitate to get in contact again if you would like more information about this soldier, or have a story to share with us. You can contact us at discovery@slq.qld.gov.au

I have also made a correction to the name in this image, from Blackman to Blackmann.

We believe that this serviceman, although identified as Thomas Blackmann in The Queenslander newspaper is actually Thomas Blackman (Service Number 3174) from Gayndah. His service record can be seen here: discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/91198

There are also 2 other brothers in this family who enlisted and served in the First World War. Alfred John discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/91179 Charles Tednee (Graham Charles Tednee) discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/person/91150