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Emeritus Consultants Biographies
William (Bill) Cole was born in India in 1919, the son of Clifford Reeve Cole, a bank executive and Lilian nee Harris. He graduated from Cambridge University and entered the RAMC not long afterwards, serving in Italy, Egypt and the United Kingdom. After demobilisation, he worked in Bristol from 1948-1950; at Guy's Hospital, London from 1950-1952; and was appointed a Consultant Radiologist to that hospital in 1952, remaining there until 1957. In 1957 he went to the West Indies to be the first radiologist appointed to the UCH West Indies and from there he came to Perth in 1958 as a Consultant Radiologist. He remained in that position until his retirement in 1984, combining this with private work. During his career, radiology developed from the practice of a limited vision on a fluorescent screen to the CT scanners and NMR imaging of today. In all of this, he has been to the forefront in promoting these developments. He married Miss Blair, a physiotherapist, in 1944 and they have two daughters, the elder being a graduate of the West Australian University (married name Dr FP Ross). In his private life, Bill Cole has been, for years, a most enthusiastic member of the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and skippers his own boat on the Swan River and the Indian Ocean. His contributions to literature include a paper in Cleidocranial dysostosis (Br J Radiol), Sickle Cell Anaemia and Yaws ( Brit Surgical Progress, 1955) and calcification in articular cartilage (Br J Bone and Joint Surgery). |
