Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Entering the Army as a Surgeon, he gained in 1853 Sir Gilbert Blane's Gold Medal. In 1854 he went out to the Crimea, and served with distinction, being awarded the Medals for the Crimea, Sebastopol, for Syria and the Baltic, also the Imperial Order of the Medji

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 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 12 June 1860 at Valence, France, the second son and second child of William Rew Pratt, FRCS, and Maria Louisa Harvey, his wife. Mrs Pratt claimed descent from the family of which William Harvey was an illustrious member. Pratt was educated privately at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and at Westminst

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

Born on 28 September 1871, eldest child and only son of Hugh Ainsworth and his wife Mary Wright Joynson, he was educated at Owen's College and the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, qualifying in 1895 with first-class honours and serving as house physician; he was also assistant medical officer at the Mon

Born on 20 March 1872, son of John Fell JP, DL of Ulverston, Lancashire, he was educated at Sedburgh and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1898. He then joined the RAMC and served throughout the South African War, being awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps and the Kind's medal w

Born on 3 February 1870 second son of Surgeon-Major Augustus Frederick Turner of the 75th and 43rd Regiments of Foot and staff-surgeon, Army Medical Department (Johnston's *Roll of the AMS*, no 5158) and Isabel Archer his wife, he entered St George's Hospital Medical School with a scholarship in 188

Born on 21 December 1858, he was educated at University College, London and took honours at the final MB examination in 1884. He took the Fellowship in 1885 and was gazetted Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on the Bengal establishment on 1 October 1885. He was promoted Surgeon-Major in 1897, an

Mohammed Sharif was a military doctor in the Pakistan, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Africa and ultimately director of UNRWA (the United National Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) operations on the West Bank. He was born on 7 January 1912 in Nab

Born on 24 May 1871, at Kandy, Ceylon, John Goodwin was the eldest son of Surgeon-Major John Goodwin, Army Medical Staff, and Mario Agnes Power, and was educated at Newton College, Devon and at St Mary's Hospital, London where he qualified in 1892. The following year he was commissioned in the Army

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