At school we have to design a $200 note. We had to choose a person, research them, then write a persuasive text on why they should be on the $200 note. Well, kind of like a miniture biography/persuasuve text.
here is my text, please, if you have critisisms, or if there is a place where I could re-word it, please tell.
Sir Edward ‘Weary’ DunlopSir Ernest Edward 'Weary' Dunlop is one of the amazing figures in Australia's history. His name and deeds are associated with courage, faithfulness and hope. This is why I strongly believe this amazing man should be on the $200 note. Sir Ernest Edward Dunlop was born on the 12th July 1907, in Wangaratta, Victoria. On the 2nd July 1993, Ernest Edward sadly passed away in Melbourne Victoria.
When Ernest was 16, he accepted an apprenticeship with the local pharmacist, as well as entering a correspondence course with the College of Pharmacy in Melbourne. In 1927 he travelled to Melbourne to complete his pharmacy course, where he graduated top of the class and received his first H. T. Tompsitt scholarship. Soon after, that same year, Ernest began his study of medicine at The University of Melbourne.
Until beginning his studies, Dunlop had been in part time army service. He rejoined the military in 1935 as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC) and also began work at Melbourne Hospital.
Weary Dunlop was one of Australia’s most well known veterans of World War 2. He was known for his medical work with the Australian prisoners of the Japanese. In November 1939 Dunlop enlisted in the AIF for service overseas. Dunlop served in the Greece and Crete Campaigns with the 2/2nd Casualty Clearing Station, and was later senior surgeon in Tobruk.
When the war in the Pacific began, Dunlop’s unit was transferred to Java. Soon after, in February 1942, he was promoted to temporary lieutenant colonel and given command of Nom. 1 Allied General Hospital at Bandung. When the island fell to the Japanese, Dunlop became a prisoner of war.
Just over a year later, after being imprisoned in Singapore, Dunlop was moved to work as a medical officer on the Burma – Thailand Railway. Because of primitive conditions, the men under his charge suffered. Dunlop became famous for his work for the ill, even though he was not in good condition himself.
Dunlop survived captivity.
Over the following years Dunlop received many honours. He was made a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1948 and was appointed senior consultant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, soon retiring in 1967.
Because of his deeds, this man will be remembered in Australia’s history forever.
This is why I believe, and why you must agree, that Sir Ernest Edward ‘Weary’ Dunlop should be on the $200 note.
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