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Thursday 9 November 2023

Friedland, Benjamin Percival


FRIEDLAND, Benjamin Percival, M.B., M.B., Ch.B. Medical Practitioner. Born Kovno, Lithuania, 12th February, 1911, son of Abraham and Beila Esther Friedland. Came to South Africa 1921. Educated at the Pretoria Boys' High School and University of the Witwatersrand. Part-time Railway Medical Officer, Brits, and part-time M.O.H., Brits, since 1937. Part-time Medical Practitioner on Staff, Brits Hospital, since 1963. (Chairman of Medical Group.) Chairman, Brits Branch of S.A. Blood Transfusion service since inception 1958. Chairman of Brits Branch of National Cancer Association; Chairman of Brits Hebrew Congregation since 1951; Member, Wingate Country Club, Brits Tennis Club, Brits Rotary Club. Married Freda Jacobson, 1st January, 1936; one son. Recreations: Tennis, Philately, numismatics. Add.: 24, Kerk Street, P.O. Box 31, Brits.

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