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Capt. Maurice Kirwan
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Liverpool
Maurice Kirwan was born in Liverpool in 1921, went to Collegiate School and graduated from the University of Liverpool Medical School in 1945. He was drafted into the RAMC and served in France. He was demobbed in 1947 and was married with a military guard of honour consisting of his fellow officers in 1947. The badge on one of his honour guard is from the Kings Regiment of Liverpool, discontinued in the late 1950's.
Dad went on to practice as a GP in Liverpool and then as the chief police surgeon of the Merseyside Police Force for over 20 years. He retired at the age of 70 in 1991 and died in 2001. His son Laurence went on to graduate from the University of Manchester Medical School and has practiced as a hand surgeon and plastic surgeon in the USA since 1987.