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- 1915 (Creation)
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Dr G.Musgrave Parker (1885-1965) qualified in medicine (M.B. B.Ch.) at Cambridge, U.K., in 1913, and in 1914 he was appointed a medical officer of health in Swansea. From 1915 until 1918 he served with the Australian forces in Egypt and France. On return he served as medical officer for the Kentish Municipality (Sheffield, Railton) 1919-1921; Swansea 1921-1926 and Clarence, 1926-1947, and then joined the staff of the Repatriation Hospital, Hobart, until he retired in 1955. He acted as president of branches of the RSL at Kentish, Swansea and Lindisfarne. He devoted most of his spare time, however, to a study of the history of the East Coast and hoped to write a book on it, but this was never finished.
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Photograph of the old barracks at Highfield, Stanley taken by George Musgrave Parker
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Investigations suggest copyright has expired. Please acknowledge: The George Musgrave Parker Collection and the University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections
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https://eheritage.libraries.tas.gov.au/resources/detail5d05.html?ID=CHH_00237
Convict Barracks at Highfield. The barracks were built in 1834 and occupied from 1836. About forty convicts were assigned to Circular Head establishment in 1832 and by 1833 there were seventy-three. The old convict barracks at Stanley on the north west Coast of Tasmania were used by the Van Diemens Land Co as quarters for employed men in the early days.