In addition to his athletic career, Carr was also a surgeon. After the Helsinki Olympics, he completed his studies in medicine and surgery at the
University of Sydney. He was visiting honorary surgeon at
Blacktown Hospital from 1965 to 1984, and was a military surgeon at
Ingleburn Army Camp in Sydney. In 1970, he did a tour of duty in the
Vietnam War as a surgeon at the Australian field hospital in
Vũng Tàu.[2]
In 2000, a portrait of him was hung in the
Archibald Prize painted by Ann Morton. That year, he was one of the former Australian Olympians who participated in the Torch Relay before the
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.[3] His father,
Slip Carr, was also an Olympian (1924 Paris 100m semi-finalist).
References
^"Edwin Carr". Cowra Guardian. 30 March 2018. Archived from
the original on 15 April 2019. Retrieved 30 March 2018.