Was commissioned Hospital Mate for general service on June 28th, 1809, being the first Hospital Mate to be commissioned for general service. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 11th Foot on December 27th, 1810; promoted Surgeon to the Royal African Colonial Corps on May 13th, 1824; Staff Surgeo

He served on board the *Anna Amelia* (1831-1832), and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on May 19th, 1834, being promoted to Surgeon on January 31st, 1851; Surgeon Major on January 13th, 1860; Deputy Inspector-General on March 1st, 1863; and Inspector-General on August 1st, 1864. He saw a

Born in London on September 10th, 1806, son of George Stovell. He was educated at St George's Hospital from 1822-1826. He joined the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on October 8th, 1828, was promoted Surgeon on February 20th, 1844, and Superintending Surgeon on June 17th, 1857. He became Principal

Juan Ignacio Vergara was a military surgeon and director of the Santiago Military Hospital, Chile. The Royal College of Surgeons was informed of this death in February 2012.

Born 14 October 1876, he was educated at Edinburgh University and the Medical School of the Edinburgh Royal Colleges, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He served as house physician at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, and as house surgeon at the General

Born 17 August 1864 at Digby, Nova Scotia, the son of Alexander Macnab, civil engineer. He was educated at Winchester and received his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon after taking the Conjoint qualification in 1887. At Netley, where he trained for the In

Major General Andrew Clyne, a hugely experienced military surgeon who served in a number of campaigns, was director general of medical services for the Royal Australia Army Medical Corps. He was born on 30 June 1907 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of Andrew Morrison Clyne, a stock and statio

Born on 22 January 1865 at Duns, Berwickshire, third son of Robert Charles MacWatt, MD, who practised there, and Ann Logan, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and University, and commissioned surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on 1 October 1887. He served on the North-West Frontier an

Born on 13 May 1870 at Walton Priory, Liverpool, the ninth child and third son of William Wilson, shipping merchant, and Kate Howard Thompson, his wife. He was educated at Liverpool College, in the training-ship *Conway*, and at the Liverpool Medical School. Wilson was a fine athlete and a good foot

Born on 12 February 1876, son of William Leonard of Hull, he was educated at East Riding College, Hull and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualification he held an appointment as house surgeon at Huntingdon Hospital before entering the IMS in 1901. He served in the Tibet Expedition of 1903-04, and

Educated at Cambridge and at St George's Hospital, where he was house physician and resident obstetric assistant after qualifying in 1923. He proceeded to his Cambridge degrees in 1926, and took the Fellowship in 1932. During the second world war he served with the rank of lieutenant-Colonel in t

Francis Wilfred Peter Dixon was born in Australia and educated at Newman College and Melbourne University where he graduated in 1930. He joined the Royal Air Force Medical Service in the same year. After serving abroad in Iraq and Aden as medical officer to 33 and 101 Squadrons he was posted to Abin