Born at Rawalpindi, India, on 20 January 1874, the fourth child and fourth son of Major Legh Richmond Battye, Indian Army, and Margaret Moffat, his wife. He was educated at Redland Hill House School, Bristol, and Combe Down School, Bath, and at University College, London, where he won an entrance exhibition and took first-class honours in zoology at the BSc examination 1893. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's Hospitals, qualifying in 1897, and won the Parkes memorial medal at the Army medical school, Netley, in 1898. He passed second into the Indian Medical Service, being gazetted surgeon-lieutenant on 27 July 1898, and posted to an Indian cavalry regiment. He saw active service and won the medal during the Boxer rising in China in 1900, and was promoted captain on 27 July 1901. In 1903 he transferred to the civil branch, was posted to the coveted political section, and served in Persia and Rajputana. He took the London MS in 1908, and the Fellowship in 1909, and was promoted major IMS on 28 January 1910. During the first world war Battye served in Egypt 1914-15, Gallipoli 1915, France 1916-17, where he won the DSO gazetted 1 February 1916 and the Legion d'Honneur in the rank of Chevalier, 24 February 1916, and in Iraq 1917-19, first as deputy assistant director of medical services (DADMS) at Bagdad, and then as secretary for health and director of the civilian medical service in Mesopotamia. He had been promoted lieutenant-colonel on 28 January 1918. He was mentioned in despatches on 23 January, 21 June, and 13 July 1916, and on 21 February 1919. Returning to India he was residency surgeon at Indore and superintendent of the King Edward Hospital and medical school, and chief medical officer for central India. He was placed in the select list for promotion on 31 May 1923, and retired on 28 January 1929. He later served for a period as medical superintendent of the King George V Merchant Seamen's Memorial Hospital at Malta, living first at 5 Harper Lane, Floriana, and later at 55 Victoria Avenue, Sliema. He was a Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Battye married in 1898 Maud St George Molesworth, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died at Sandecotes Road, Parkstone, Bournemouth, after a long illness, on 27 April 1943 and was cremated. Publications:- Climate and health of Meshed, Persia. *Gazetteer of Persia*, 1906. *Plague in Ajmer Merwara*. 1910. Spinal analgesia. *Ind med Gaz*. 1913, 48, 99.