Doctor Colin Scott Dafoe (21 November 1909 – 29 July 1969) was a
Canadian surgeon
In modern medicine, a surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery. Although there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon usually is also a licensed physician or received the same medical training as ...
, best known for his work with Marshall
Josip Broz Tito's Partisans in
Yugoslavia during the
Second World War. His three-men medical team was parachuted to Eastern Bosnia on 12 May 1944, and he remained in the country for the following six months.
Mission Dafoe was a World War II
Special Operations Executive (SOE) medical and military expedition to assist Yugoslav Partisans in Eastern Bosnia.
Dafoe was born in
Madoc, Ontario, the son of a prosperous hardware merchant. The Dafoe family was well established in the area and had already produced one visibly successful son in
John Wesley Dafoe, editor-in-chief of the
Manitoba (later Winnipeg) Free Press from 1901 until his death in 1944. There were also at least two notable physicians in the family: an uncle, Dr
William Allan Dafoe, who was to influence Colin Dafoe's decision to pursue a medical career, and Dr W.A Dafoe’s son Dr
Allan Roy Dafoe, who later moved to the northern town of
Callander, Ontario, where he would rise to international celebrity as the country doctor who delivered the
Dionne Quintuplets on May 28, 1934.
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1909 births
1969 deaths
Canadian surgeons
20th-century Canadian physicians
People from Hastings County
20th-century surgeons
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