Sichel, Gerald Theodore Silvester (1867 - 1928)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E003493 - Sichel, Gerald Theodore Silvester (1867 - 1928)

Title
Sichel, Gerald Theodore Silvester (1867 - 1928)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E003493

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2013-01-31

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Sichel, Gerald Theodore Silvester (1867 - 1928), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Sichel, Gerald Theodore Silvester

Date of Birth
1867

Place of Birth
Bradford

Date of Death
29 February 1928

Place of Death
Sevenoaks

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS May 12th 1892
 
FRCS June 14th 1894

Details
Born at Bradford; educated at the Whitgift School, Croydon, and at University College, London. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1887 and there showed himself a good athlete, winning the 100 yards at the Hospital and representing the United Hospitals on several occasions. He held an appointment at Colchester for a short time after leaving the Hospital; entered the Navy head of the list in November, 1894, served in HMS *Gibraltar* at the Cape from 1896-1899, was then appointed instructor at the Naval Medical School, Haslar, in 1899, and left the service in 1903. He next took the newly created post of Surgeon-in-charge of the Actinotherapeutic Department at Guy's Hospital, holding office until 1907, when he settled in Sevenoaks, becoming Surgeon to the Sevenoaks and Holmesdale Hospital, the Sevenoaks Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, and Consulting Surgeon to the Sevenoaks Grammar School. In 1914, on the outbreak of the European War, he joined the RAMC as Major, his age preventing him from re-entering the Navy, and was appointed Surgeon to the Lord Derby Hospital at Warrington in April, 1915, was posted to Wimereux as Surgeon Specialist in March, 1918, and was transferred to the Military Hospital at Beltinge near Herne Bay, Kent, in November, 1918. He returned to practice in Sevenoaks in 1919 and died there on February 29th, 1928. Sichel published a small work, *Ambulance Notes*, which was adopted by the Navy. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, and acted as representative of the Guildford Division at the Annual Representative Meeting in London in 1906. Endowed with an artistic temperament, he was a painter of considerable natural ability with a remarkable gift of caricature. Many of his drawings appeared in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette*, to which he was a constant contributor.

Sources
*Guy's Hosp Gaz*, 1928, xlii, 146, with eulogy and portrait
 
*Brit Med Jour*, 1928, i, 477

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/E003000-E003999/E003400-E003499

URL for File
375676

Media Type
Unknown