JSM - Edition Four

The Flying Medic By Harry Walters

The man who saved the inlanders. John Flynn was the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. He saved the inlanders by teaching them all they need to know to save a life in the outback. He was also a Presbyterian Church leader. Playing with 3D crosses

Figure 1 John Flynn

John Flynn loved to play with shapes especially the 3D Red Cross. John Flynn was born on the 25 th of November 1880 in Moliagul, Victoria. Two years later his mother died during childbirth to his little brother. John Flynn and his two siblings were brought up by their

aunty and father. For primary school he went to Ormond College in Melbourne and for university he went to the University of Melbourne and there he decided to study Theology. Let’s get personal When you understand the personal stuff it makes it a whole lot

Figure 2 university of Melbourne

easier. He was born in Moliagul, Victoria on the 25 th of November 1880. He lived in Parkville Swanston Street in Melbourne. He married Jean Baird in Sydney then he died of cancer in 1971.

Figure 4 Swanston street Melbourne after

Figure 3 Swanston street Melbourne before

Do you want to see my trophy cabinet? John Flynn has achieved many great things and here are some of them. John Flynn achieved

his career goal of being ordinated as a minister of the Presbyterian Church on the 24 th of January in the year of 1911 when he was 30 years old. John Flynn was granted officer of the order of the British Empire in 1933. He made history as the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia [which he founded] was the first aero-medical service in

Figure 5 royal flying doctor service plane

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