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Born in South Australia to German and Scottish parents, Teichelmann trained as a doctor and surgeon in Australia, England, Ireland, (1880-90) and later updated his surgery skills in England, Germany and Austria. (1912). He immigrated to New Zealand in 1987. Author McKerrow describes his struggle to piece together the life of Ebenezer Teichelmann.
On returning in 1993, I found over five million people had fled the country, a million Afghans had been killed or missing. Every day we worked with many who were victims of war, poverty or one of the hundreds of thousands of people disabled through land mines and many of the estimated million war widows and orphans. A civil war continued through the three years I lived in Kabul writes Bob McKerrow in his introduction. He writes further, "The spirit and ...