Individual Details
Sir Norman William Kater
(18 Nov 1874 - 18 Aug 1965)
Events
| Birth | 18 Nov 1874 | Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Marriage | 25 Feb 1901 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Jean Gaerloch MacKenzie | |||
| Military | 1914 | Red Cross |  | ||
| Medal | 1918 | Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur, Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 1929 | Order of Knight Bachelor | |||
| Marriage | 14 Jan 1938 | Darling Point, New South Wales, Australia - Mary Wade | |||
| Death | 18 Aug 1965 | Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | |||
| Occupation | Doctor and Politician |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Wade (1899 - 1969) |
| Spouse | Jean Gaerloch MacKenzie (1876 - 1931) |
Notes
Military
Late in 1915, Kater went to Egypt to assist the Australian Red Cross commissioner (Sir) Adrian Knox. He soon departed for France and joined the French Service de Santé Militaire, working at the St Rome base hospital near Toulouse.Unable to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force in London, he returned to Sydney in 1917 and in October joined the Australian Army Medical Corps.
He worked at the Military Hospital, Randwick, and, promoted captain and temporary major, from January 1918 to February 1919 as A.A.M.C. adjutant at Victoria Barracks.
For his services in France he was appointed chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaissance Française.