Saturday, September 21, 2013

Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Gabbett (1923-1929)

updated on June 28, 2013

b.1878, Co. Kerry, Ireland - d.December 21, 1954, Penharbour. Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Eire. LRCP&SI. RAMC, Surgeon 1900; WWI 1914-1918; Mons retreat 1914; Major [n.d.]; Lieutenant-Colonel January 17, 1916; Hong Kong 1923. Hong Kong Government, temporary Medical Officer in Charge, Victoria Hospital July 7, 1923; left Hong Kong for India 1929, Assistant Director of Medical Services 1929-32; England aft.1932, Colonel, Deputy Director, Medical Services at the Horse Guards, for the Eastern Command 1933-37; retired from Army 1937, final rank: Major-General. Sanitary Board April 13, 1923, 3-year term. Medical Board May 1, 1923. Honor: CB 1936; DSO 1917, KHS. Publications: A Hospital in Tientsin, North China, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. #46, 1926.

m. Emily Gosselin, d.March 25, 1964, Penharbour, Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, April 1, 1933, The Services; January 4, 1936, Medical New Year Honors; January 8, 1955, Medical News, Deaths. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 13, 1923, Appt. #158; May 11, 1923, Appt. #219. Hong Kong Government, Medical Report for the Year 1923. Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Headstones at Christ Church, Delagany [internet]. Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives, Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defense Personnel, 1900-75. Officers from Co. Kerry Ireland who Served in WWI: List by John MacGillycuddy, Annascaul 25 Jul 1917. Supplement to the Edinburgh Gazette, January 17, 1916. Supplement to the London Gazette, November 22, 1918, January 1, 1936. Winter Catarrhs and Bronchitis, January 13, 1917, p.58.

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