MAJ Stewart H. Walpole
1910 – 1966
USAAC
WWII
Stewart Hewes Walpole was born in Evanston on October 20, 1910 to Stewart and Fanny Hewes Walpole.
Walpole grew up in Park Ridge and graduated from Morgan Park Military Academy, Northwestern University, and its Medical School.
He married Dorothy Hogan of Barrington before 1940.
Walpole did post-graduate research in pathology at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago and surgical research at the University of Minnesota. After his medical residency, he enlisted for duty in World War II in the U. S. Army Air Force, and served three years in the Medical Corps, 3502nd AAF Base Unit. He served as a flight surgeon in Russia, and was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery for evacuating American wounded from Warsaw, and was honorably discharged a Major on December 21, 1945.
In 1948, he opened a general surgery practice in Palatine, where he practiced for 14 years before he took a position in the VA Hospital in Torgus, Maine until his death.
Major Stewart Walpole died on October 6, 1966 in Farmingdale, Maine, and is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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