Biography
He was qualified asa medical doctor.
He practiced medicine in Hawaii, arriving there in 1893.
He married Mary Ha’aheo Kinimaka there, daughter of id Leleo Kinimaka, commander-in-chief of the Royal troops of Hawaii and a member of King Kalakaua’s Privy Council.
In 1909 John Atcherley, who believed he had a cure for leprosy and that a rival doctor was trying to steal it, was confined for a time in an asylum for the insane. After his release he took his family to San Francisco (where they were enumerated on the 1910 US census) and then to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. In the early 1920s the Atcherley family returned to Hawaii.
Military Service
He was appointed as a Surgeon RNCVR (With seniority dated 01/05/1915).
He served in HMCS Shearwater I 1915.
He served as a Naval Medical Agent Esquimalt 1917-1918.
He served in HMCS Shearwater as Medical Officer I 1915-1918. (He was demobilized.)
References
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- www.atcherley.org.uk ↗
