Talk:Colin Scott Dafoe

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This article has just been started and will be expanded. Colin Scott Dafoe had an illustrious medical career. For a brief period in the 1930s he worked as a "dogsled doctor" in the Canadian north. But he is best known for his wartime service, when he saved the lives of countless soldiers and civilians in the mountains of Yugoslavia. In May 1944, while on assignment with Britain’s Special Operations Executive, he parachuted into eastern Bosnia. His mission was to provide medical aid to the men and women who were Marshal Tito’s Partisans. In a makeshift hospital, Dafoe operated on the maimed and wounded who had received no medical attention prior to his arrival. When an enemy offensive forced the Partisans into the rugged mountains and dense forests, Dafoe and his portable hospital followed, operating in the field of combat. Dafoe was honoured by the Partisans after his departure from Yugoslavia in late-1944. He went on to become a noted thoracic surgeon. His life ended mysteriously, when he disappeared in the Waterton Lakes district of southern Alberta in 1969. His remains were discovered three years later.

Streetwriter 20:29, 29 October 2007 (UTC)