The son of Donald MacKay (1849–1934),[4] and Eleanor (a.k.a. "Helen") MacKay (1855–1930), née Vincent,[5][6] Charles Vincent MacKay was born at Woods Point, Victoria on 3 May 1880.[7]
Charles MacKay played VFL football while studying Medicine at Trinity College.[8]
Medicine
He graduated in medicine from the University of Melbourne at the end of 1905.[9]
Following his graduation, MacKay worked in several Melbourne hospitals, completing a Doctorate of Medicine by Thesis in 1910,[10] and taking on the role of medical superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1911.[11]
Military service
At the outbreak of World War I, MacKay joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in England,[12] where he was twice Mentioned in Despatches. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he took command of the No 80 General Hospital in Salonika during the latter stages of the war.[13]
Post-war Medicine
MacKay remained in England for several years following the war;[14][15] and, after returning to Australia, he served as medical assistant to the director of the Australian Institute of Anatomy, Canberra, in 1936, and as Acting Director in 1937.[16]
MacKay was appointed as director of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria in 1939.[17]
During World War II, he was wartime executive medical officer of the Medical Equipment Control Committee, and after the war, he joined the Cancer Institute as a secretary and later served as its executive medical officer.[18]
^Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 537. ISBN978-1-921496-32-5.
^"UNIVERSITY COUNCIL". The Age. No. 15, 831. Victoria, Australia. 5 December 1905. p. 5. Retrieved 24 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
