Harry Winter

Medical doctor

Dawes Road Cemetery / Chenstochover Aid Society Scarborough, ON / Canada Section B, Location N, Line 7, Plot 9

Dr. Harry Winter Toronto Surgeon, Hero of Blitz, Is Stricken at 37

Dr. Harry Winter, young Toronto surgeon and one of the heroes of the Coventry blitz of 1940, died early yesterday morning in his sleep at the home of his father, 47 Barton Ave. He suffered a coronary thrombosis. He was 37. Dr Winter returned to Toronto last summer from London, England where he specialized in thoracic surgery. A few months ago he opened an office in Toronto. during the raid on Coventry, Dr Winter directed operation which resulted in the rescue of every patient from the Coventry and Warwichshire Hospital that night. Later, working under candlelight, he performed surgical operations as bombs fell on the hospital. The gallant part played by the doctor in the Coventry blitz won recognition from the King. A graduate of the University of Toronto in 1936, Dr Winter interned at Vancouver and later was ship's surgeon on the cable ship Restorer. He served in the Second World War with the RCAMC. He continued in service with the Army of Occupation in Holland after the War. Following his discharge from the army, Dr. Winter took post-graduate study at Edinburgh where he received his FRCS degree. He was for a time on the staff of the Hospital fro Consumption and Diseases of the Chest at Brompton, London. Dr Winter was unmarried. Surviving are his father, Abraham Winter, three brothers, Dr Ben Winter FRCS, former chief surgeon at Christie St Hospital, now in England; Jack Winter, Ottawa and Lloyd Winter, Toronto and two sisters Mrs S C Schiller and Mrs H Sherman both of Toronto.