William Thornton Mustard

William Thornton Mustard

In 1941, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps where he first served as a First Lieutenant rising to become a Major. During World War II, he pioneered an operation that helped keep a patient's limb with severe artery damage rather than amputating it. In 1944, he performed an operation on a leg of a soldier^[4] which would later be recognized with being made a Member of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire.^[5] In 1941, he married Elise Howe. They had seven children.^[4] Their son Charles Mustard was convicted of the murder of Barbara Brodkin.Cold case killer to spend rest of life in jail

Career at Sick Kids

After the war, he returned to Toronto and was chief resident at the Hospital for Sick Children for six months. He spent another year at the New York Orthopedic Hospital before being appointed surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1947. He spent a month training with Alfred Blalock in Baltimore. In 1957, he was appointed Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery and retired in 1976.^[4]

He died from a massive