Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E006469 - Dempsey, Austin Bernard (1911 - 1975)
Title:
Dempsey, Austin Bernard (1911 - 1975)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006469
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-11-26
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Dempsey, Austin Bernard (1911 - 1975), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Dempsey, Austin Bernard
Date of Birth:
17 October 1911
Place of Birth:
Lomdon
Date of Death:
7 October 1975
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
OBE
MRCS 1935
FRCS 1948
LRCP 1935
Details:
Austin Bernard Dempsey was born at West Ham on 17 October 1911. He was educated at Stonyhurst, the London Hospital and St Thomas's Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1935. He was commissioned into the RAMC in October 1935 and appointed to a permanent commission in October 1941.
Most of his service before and during the second world war was spent in India, Iraq, and Burma where he commanded 25 Combined General Hospital, 94 Indian General Hospital and 68 Indian General Hospital. On his return to the United Kingdom in March 1946 he was appointed Officer in Charge Surgical Division RH Woolwich. He won the first Montefiore Prize at the Royal Army Medical College in 1947 and obtained the FRCS in 1948. He served in Hamburg, Khartoum, Benghazi and Cyprus and was consulting surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces in 1960, and to the Military Hospital, Accra.
He retired on 10 January 1963, with the rank of Brigadier and died on 7 October 1975, aged 63 years.
Sources:
*Daily Telegraph* 9 October 1975
*Army Medical Services Magazine*, 1976, 30, 30
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006400-E006499
Media Type:
Unknown
