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Asset Name:
E005401 - Seddon, Allen (1889 - 1958)
Title:
Seddon, Allen (1889 - 1958)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005401
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-04
Description:
Obituary for Seddon, Allen (1889 - 1958), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Seddon, Allen
Date of Birth:
14 May 1889
Date of Death:
1958
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 14 May 1914

FRCS 12 June 1924

LRCP 1914

MB ChB Liverpool 1911

MD 1934
Details:
Born on 14 May 1889 he received his medical education in Liverpool and at the London Hospital. On joining the IMS as a Lieutenant on 26 July 1913, he obtained the first Montefiore Prize and Medal in Military Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College in London in 1913. He served as regimental medical officer with the Gurkha Rifles from 1915 until 1917 being gazetted Captain on 30 March 1915, and was then in charge of the surgical division of a general hospital in Palestine, being mentioned in dispatches in the Gazette of 12 January 1920. He was promoted Major on 26 January 1925 and retired in that rank on 8 March 1928. From 1940 to 1949 he was medical superintendent of Coventry Municipal General Hospital. He died in 1958.
Sources:
Crawford's *Roll of IMS*, general list, No 614
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005400-E005499
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Unknown