NAVAL APPOINTMENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 252, 24 October 1934, Page 9

NAVAL APPOINTMENT.

SURGEON OF H.M.S. PHILOMEL FORMER AUCKLAND DOCTOR. A former Aucklander, Surgeon-Com-mander R. Buddie, 0.8. E., who joined the Navy during the war, arrived in Auckland this morning by the Rangitiki to relieve Surgeon-Commander A. Bee, of the Philomel. He will probably be three years at the New Zealand naval station. . The son of the late Mr. Charles Buddie, of Auckland, Surgeon-Com-mander Buddie qualified at Otago Medical School, and left Auckland in 1912 for London. He was a house surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital when war broke out. He joined the Navy in August, 1914, and had a varied war career. He was on board Admiial Sii Roger Keyes' flagship H.M.S. Warwick carrying wounded from the attack on Zeebrugge, when she struck a mine. He was later attached to mine sweepers, and after the war went to Russia in a rr U n boat on what is known as the Archangel Relief Expedition. For some 15 years the surgeon-com-mander has been stationed in China. At i the Singapore base he was connected with tlie° research work on malaria. The disease was now xinder control, he said. His last appointment was at Gibraltar, where he was senior medical officer of H.M. naval dockyards and liaison officer with the officer commanding the military hospital. Surgeon-Commander Buddie is looking forward to his stay in Auckland after the absence of 22 years.