Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Harrison, Gerald Fairland (1938-1946)

updated September 5, 2013.

b. January 4, 1906, Siakot, India - d. June 1, 1963, London. MBBS London Univ. 1929. MRCP, London 1947. RAMC, Lieutenant January 30, 1929; Herbert Prize 1930; Captain July 30, 1932; Leishman Prize 1937; Major 1939; Hong Kong 1938; Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, POW 1941-45; physician, British Military Hospital (Bowen Road Hospital) 1942-45; dept. Hong Kong ca.1946; Lieutenant-Colonel June 30, 1946; retired May 30, 1949, ill-health. Honor: MBE June 1946; FRS [need further verifications].
s/o L.W. Harrison.
Selected bibliography: Bowie, Donald C., Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: The Story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. #15, 1975. The British Medical Journal, January 29, 1944, p.159, Correspondence, The Prisoner-of-War Mentality. The London Gazette, July 14, 1933, p.4720. Supplement to the London Gazette, July 2, 1946, p.3362

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