Dr John Barkly Bennett

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Registered as a Medical Doctor on 1/9/1947

Dr at Adelaide Hospital Emergency Department who received the corpse of the person found at Somerton Beach on 1/12/1948, now known to be Carl Webb AKA Somerton Man
Constable John Moss had the body transferred by police ambulance to the Royal Adelaide Hospital on North Terrace. In front of the hospital’s emergency department, Dr John Barkley Bennett briefly examined the body in the ambulance.
Several doctors were involved in the investigation of the cause of death. The first was John Barkley Bennett, a legally qualified medical practitioner (or LQMP), who declared life extinct in the first place. Rigor was established and he thought that death had occurred within eight hours of his examination, at about 2am.