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Met Mr. JH Hicks on the SS Stratheden while travelling from London, UK (departure date: 3 February 1949) to Bombay, India in early 1949.

Passenger List Entry: Joel Arthur Reuben Hirst, b. 1875, Retired, Age 74. Departure port London, Destination port Sydney.

First name(s) Joel Arthur Reuben
Last name Hirst
Sex Male
Birth year 1875
Age 74
Age as transcribed 74
Occupation Retired
Departure day 3
Departure month 2
Departure year 1949
Departure country England
Departure port London
Destination port Sydney
Entry struck out N
State or territory New South Wales
Destination Sydney
Country Australia
Ship's name Stratheden
Ship's registered tonnage 23732
Destination place - country AUSTRALIA
Destination country Australia
Ship's official number 0
Ship's master's title Captain
Ship's master's first name(s) S W S
Ship's master's last name Dickson
Shipping line P. & O.
Number of passengers 1027
Ship's departure port LONDON
Ship's destination port Sydney
Ship's destination country Australia
Archive The National Archives
Series title Board Of Trade: Commercial And Statistical Department And Successors: Outwards Passenger Lists
Series BT 27
Record set Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960
Category Travel & migration
Subcategory Passenger Lists
Collections from Great Britain, England, Australasia

Country of Intended Future permanent Residence: Australia

Last Address in the United Kingdom:
24 Beaumont Park Road,
Lockwood, Huddersfield
England
UK

Surgeon who accompanied G. Sherriff and F. Ludlow on their last expedition in 1949 as a Medical Officer.

• Studied medicine at Birmingham University, obtained his Fellowship in 1942

• 1942-1946, served as a ship’s surgeon in the Merchant Navy

• During his time as surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Birmingham General Hospital he worked with H. H. Sampson, B. T. Rose, R. Scott Mason and J. B. Leather, and obtained the MCh (Orth) from Liverpool in 1950.

• 1951, appointed surgeon to the Birmingham Accident Hospital

• 1955, married Dr Sheila C. S. Meux in 1955 and they had two sons and one daughter

MRCS 1940
FRCS 1942
MB ChB 1938
MCh (Orth) 1950

“His studies of the anatomy of the foot elucidated the function of the Plantar fascia and both simplified and clarified the movements of inversion and eversion: as a result, he lectured at anatomists meetings both in this country and in France and the United States. He also showed how inversion could cause the familiar lateral rotation injury of the ankle.”

Developed what is known as a Hicks bone plate - used in many countries for internal fixation of bone fractures