Called the Brigadier Brian McMahon Scholarship and with a value of $10,000, it will be awarded to a student enrolling in their second year of study for a Bachelor of Health Science degree in paramedicine at the Auckland University of Technology.
Brig (retired) McMahon, who lives in Dunedin, had a commendable military and medical career spanning 60 years.
He is a graduate of the University of Otago Medical School and was deployed to Vietnam as a medical officer with the 1st New Zealand Services medical team in 1969.
After his military career, he was the medical superintendent at Wakari and Dunedin hospitals.
He was appointed honorary surgeon to the Queen from 1980-83 and was the Royal New Zealand Returned Services' Association Anzac of the Year in 2011.
Dr McMahon is Commander of the Order of the British Empire and Knight of the Order of St John.
Funded by Veterans' Affairs and Ranfurly Veterans Trust, the scholarship aims to honour the service given by veterans to New Zealand's armed forces.
Applications for the scholarship close on November 30.
For more information about the scholarship, contact military programme leader Brendan Wood, AUT department of paramedicine, at brendan.wood@aut.ac.nz
- Staff reporter
