Colonel John Arthur Hopkins Sherwin KStJ VD
Third Commissioner of St John Victoria District, 1945-1951
Arthur Sherwin followed his Alfred Hospital early medical training by specialty training in obstetrics and gynaecology in Europe. On his way home he joined the British Red Cross medical field units in the 1912 Balkan War. After his return he gained his MD higher degree, married and was appointed to a senior position at the Women’s Hospital at the outbreak of WW I. He volunteered and served with 3AGH at Lemnos and Cairo. After the war he resumed his medical practice and volunteer work with Red Cross, the Voluntary Aid Detachments and St John.
At the outbreak of WW II he was appointed Commanding Officer of AGH115 Heidelberg Military Hospital until retirement in 1944. He was invested as a Knight of Grace in the Order of St John in 1944 and, with the untimely death of Rupert Downes, became Commissioner of St John Ambulance Brigade in 1945. He retired from this post in 1951. He died in 1961.
