Born in Meerut, India, on 25 April 1865, son of Surgeon Jesse Griggs Pilcher, IMS, afterwards Deputy Surgeon-General and FRCS. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1890. Pilche

Born at Gravesend on 26 November 1869, he qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1892, and was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RAMC on 29 January 1894 and promoted Captain on 29 January. He saw active service in China in 1900, was mentioned in dispatches and won the medal and clasp. He wa