Frank Apperley came to Wesley as a 14 year old boarder, into the Scholarship form, and it was noted he was to study Chemistry.
He would become professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Virginia USA for 27 years. He was a constant link between the Rhodes Scholars in the USA and Australia. He died in 1961.
He retired aged 69 from the Medical College of Virginia where it was said 'he had a way of bringing the whole of life to his teaching'. He enjoyed enormous respect from his students and professional colleagues.
He had vast medical experience as a ship's doctor in the South Pacific, working in the slums of Dublin, and in Egypt in the Royal Medical Corps. He set up a museum of over 1700 specimens at the Virginia University.
While at Wesley he was a rower and this continued at Melbourne University and at Oxford. During WWI he was attached to the Royal Australian Medical Corps. He wrote a haunting description of the process for 'Burial at Sea' which is recorded in 'The First Hundred Years'.
