SIR DAVID SERJEANT

Evening Star, Issue 20020, 10 November 1928, Page 2

SIR DAVID SERJEANT

l l, AM DLS-TliE COLOMIST CRICKET HATCH Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 9. (Received November 10, at 10.80 a.m.) Sir David Serjeant has met with an accident. He bent down to pick op an article on the floor, but overbalanced ami broke his leg. He is in a-critical condition in a hospital. He voyaged to Australia in 1852 in eight,v-two days. He was taken ill, and was in a crude hospital at Canvastown, Melbourne, lying w’ith a corpse on either side of him and the nurse dead drunk. Sir David Serjeant was a paperInnger, gardener, painter, conveyancer, and builder’s labourer before returning to London in 1859 resume his medical training. He is ninetyeight years of age.— Aiistrah'an Press Service. ' [Sir David Maurice Serjeant is a well-known physician and surgeon. In Australia in 1852 he_ took part in the first intercolonial cricket match, and the only survivor of the twenty-two players. He was in the P. and 0, medical service. A knighthood was conferred on him in 1922.1