Henry Kenneth Fry (born 25 May 1886

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, and Medical Officer for the City of Adelaide.

Education

He attended

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and received his BSc 1905, MBBS 1908, MD 1934.The University of Adelaide , Leaders in their fields
He was a 1909 Rhodes Scholar ( Balliol)http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/pdf/sarhodesscholars.pdf List of South Australian Rhodes Scholars Obtained another BSc, and diplomas in public health and anthropology, in 1912.

Career

In 1913, Fry succeeded

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as chief medical inspector of Aborigines, based in Darwin.

World War I

At the outbreak of

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in 1914, he was appointed captain in the

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, Australian Imperial Force, and served in

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. In France in 1916, he became deputy assistant director of medical services (D.A.D.M.S.), 2nd Division, and was awarded the

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for supervising the evacuation of the wounded while under constant shell-fire at

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and

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in July–August of that year. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1917, and given command of the 13th Field Ambulance.

Post-war career

He returned to Australia in 1918, where he married Dorothy Editha Deeley with

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rites at the Church of the Epiphany,

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on 21 October 1918. However, by January 1919 he was back in France as temporary colonel and A.D.M.S., 5th Division. His A.I.F. appointment terminated on 26 December. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches. In 1920 Fry established a private practice in

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in a house of his own design which incorporated a surgery, laboratory and one of the first X-ray units in the State. He began lecturing in materia medica and therapeutics in the neurology department at the university. He was also an honorary physician at the

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and an official visitor to Parkside Mental Hospital. In 1923 he joined the

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(of which he would later serve as President in 1939). In 1926 Fry was a founder member of the Board for Anthropological Research, along with Draper Campbell, (Sir)

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,John Cleland

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, and Archibald Watson. His anthropological work took him on numerous medical, ethnological, and anthropological research expeditions to Aboriginal lands in Central Australia between 1929 and 1937. Beginning in 1930 he published over twenty scientific papers on Aboriginal kinship, psychology and mythology. Moving to Crafers in 1937, he was appoint public health officer for the City of Adelaide, a position he occupied part-time. In 1939, as well as acting as President of the

, he was a founding fellow of the

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. Henry Fry died on 22 July 1959 in

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Documents

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Archives contain: * Manuscript and typescript papers on kinship, education and other aspects of Aboriginal cultures and on the peoples of Melville and Bathurst Islands; * notebooks and logs kept on various expeditions with notebooks for psychological tests; * correspondence 1933-57 and with

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on the social organisation of Aboriginal cultures 1950-52; * bibliography of papers on anthropology by South Australian research workers 1927-38; * transcription from the original of 'A Short History of New Australia' by H.K. Fry; * miscellaneous paintings, extracts, maps and * a notebook dated 1875 kept by Dr. Lumbers.

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