 Page became an inaugural Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in 1927, and in 1942 was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS).In February 1916, Page enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps.He served as chief medical officer aboard the troopship "Ballarat", and was then stationed at an army hospital in Cairo for several months.