Lieutenant Colonel (Ernest) Edward "Weary" Dunlop

Date of birth	1907-07-12	Wangaratta, VIC.
Other	1924	Commenced a pharmacy apprenticeship at Benalla.
Other	1927	Moved to Melbourne to attend Pharmacy College.
Other	1930	Won a scholarship to Ormond College at Melbourne University to study medicine.
Other	1934	Graduated from Melbourne University with first class honours.
Other	1935	Joined the Royal Melbourne Hospital as a junior resident.
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1935	Australian Army Medical Corps.
Date commissioned	1935-07-01	Commissioned into the Australian Army Medical Corps with the rank of captain.
Other	1936	Appointed Senior Surgical Resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Other	1937	Joined the Children's Hospital as Resident and graduated as a Master of Surgery from Melbourne University.
Other	1937	Graduated from Melbourne University as a Master of Surgery.
Other	1938-05	Left Australia for London aboard the SS Ormonde as the ship's medical officer. That year in London he attended St Bartholomew's Medical School and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs)	1939-11-13	Enlisted in the 6th Division Australian Army Medical Corps with the rank of captain.
Other	1939-12	Posted as Medical Officer, Headquarters, Australian Overseas Base, Jerusalem, and appointed Acting Assistant Director of Medical Services.
Date promoted	1940-05-01	Appointed major and Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services on the staff of the Australian Corps Headquarters and AIF Headquarters in Gaza and Alexandria. Later Dunlop was appointed as AIF Medical Liaison Officer on the staff of the Deputy Director of Medical Services of Lusterforce, he served in both Greece and Crete.
Date promoted	1941-07-18	Appointed to command 2/2nd Casualty Clearing Station, but he was dissatisfied with staff work and declined this promotion. He remained with this unit as senior surgeon, and second in charge, and subsequently served with them in Tobruk.
Other	1942	With the withdrawal of the 6th and 7th Australian Divisions from the Middle East, Dunlop and 2/2nd Casualty Clearing Station were transferred to Java.
Date promoted	1942-02-26	Appointed temporary lieutenant colonel. He was in command of No 1 Allied General Hospital at Bandung.
Date captured	1942-03	The Japanese captured the hospital Dunlop was working at in Bandung and he became a prisoner of war. Dunlop and the prisoners of war under his command were then transferred to Singapore.
Other	1943-01-20	Dunlop and the prisoners of war under his command were transfered from Singapore to Thailand to work on the Burma-Thailand railway.
Date promoted	1945-09-27	Appointed lieutenant colonel.
Date returned to Australia	1945-10
Other	1945-12-10	Began work with Brigadier Blackburn at Army Headquarters as Assistant Director of Medical Services to Blackforce.
Date of discharge	1946-02-01	Demoblised and transferred to the Reserve List of Officers with the rank of honorary colonel.
Date of honour or award	1947-03-06	Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
Other	1948	Made a fellow of the Royal Australiasian College of Surgeons.
Date of honour or award	1965-01-01	Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).
Date of honour or award	1969-01-01	Knight Bachelor.
Date of honour or award	1977	Australian of the Year.
Date of honour or award	1987-07-08	Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).
Date of honour or award	1992	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.
Date of honour or award	1993	Knight Grand Cross (1st Class) of the Most Noble Order of the Royal Crown of Thailand.
Date of death	1993-07-02	Died after contracting pneumonia.
Date of burial	1993-07-12	Received state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne, VIC.