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Doctor Behind the Wire

Date(s): 25 September 2025

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/doctor-behind-the-wire-tickets-1389518951589?aff=oddtdtcreator

Doctor Behind Wire - FOH


Join us for this bite sized lunch time talk exploring the history of medicine.

In 1941, Jack Ennis, Captain and pathologist in the Indian Medical Service, was sent ‘up-country’ in Malaya to work at a remote hospital. As the Japanese invaded, he wrote daily in his small pocket-size diary and recorded the retreat to Singapore, captivity and internment by the Japanese, and finally, in 1945, the end of the war in the Far East. Throughout his time in captivity, Jack continued his work as a pathologist. His diaries provide a unique description of the danger, difficulties and deprivation as a prisoner of war. In this talk Jackie Sutherland, his daughter, will draw on her late father’s diaries and mementos to illustrate aspects of his life in internment - three and a half years that included daily struggles, ingenuity, great friendships, humour and tragedy

Age Guidance: 16+

Important Refund Information: Please note that included in your ticket prices is a 96p booking charge which is non-refundable. This is part of Eventbrite terms and conditions and is not at the discression of Surgeons Hall Museums.

Content Warning: Our collections contain human remains as well as representations of anatomy, injury, and disease that some may find upsetting.

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