| Entry Text: | MITCHELL, Alan. No Man Despairs: The Story of Matthew Banks, Plastic Surgeon. 222p., illus., index. London: Harrap, 1958.
Banks was an Australian doctor enlisted in the RANVR. In 1939 he joined the AMC Moreton Bay as her surgeon. When she reached the UK he undertook medical research for the RAF, then went to HMS Condor at Arbroath to train, practice medicine, and write papers on FAA training. In 1942 he was appointed principal medical officer to Furious. Chance and an appendix operation moved him as medical liaison officer to the USAAF Eighth Air Force before he was posted to Kanimbla. In late 1944 he joined a plastic surgery team in England and devoted the rest of his career to this specialty. |
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