Smith, Samuel Boylan (1925-1927)

updated April 11, 2014.

b. December 12, 1872, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, Ireland - d. December 13, 1944, Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. MD (Dubl.)1898. RAMC 1900-27, promotions: Lieutenant November 1900, Captain November 1903, Major August 1912, Acting Lieutenant-Colonel April-May 1918, Lieutenant-Colonel October 1918, retired December 12, 1927; service: West Africa 1901-02, India 1903-08, the Great War, France 1918-19, Ceylon 1919-22, Hong Kong nlt.1925. Honor: DSO June 4, 1917; MID May 1917 and July 1919; OBE.

HONG KONG nlt.1925. Sanitary Board (vice Fitzgerald Gabbett Fitzgerald) December 14, 1925 - November 10, 1927.

Selected bibliography: Dix Noonan Webb [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 18, 1925, #723; November 10, 1927, #657. The London Gazette, June 1, 1917, p.5474.

Shellshear, Joseph Lexden (1923)

updated December 13, 2013

MB; ChM (Syd.). Hong Kong nlt.1923. Honor: DSO

HONG KONG nlt.1923. HKU, Professor of Anatomy 1923-36; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine 1925-26, 1934. 

b.1885-d.1958.
m. Hildred Shellshear (Founding Ladies' Advisory Committee, Cheero Club 1935).

Selected bibliography: Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.), Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, January 25, 1935, Ordinance #4 of 1935, An Ordinance to Provide for the Incorporation of the Cheero Club of Hong Kong.

Temp. notes:
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shellshear-joseph-lexden-joe-11674

Hughes, George Arthur (1901)

updated November 3, 2013

b. May 18, 1851, Clonmel, Ireland – d. April 13, 1926. BA, MBCM (Dubl.) 1875. RAMC, Surgeon February 4, 1877; Afghan War 1878-80; Candahar 1898;  Bechuanaland 1884-85; Major February 4, 1889; Ashanti Campaign 1895-96; Lieutenant-Colonel; February 4, 1897; Sudan 1898; Hong Kong nlt.1901, Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China; Colonel March 25, 1904; retired August 26, 1905. Honor: DSO November 15, 1898.

HONG KONG nlt.1901. Sanitary Board (vice Henry Herbert Brown, resigned) January 12, 1901

5th s/o James Hughes, of Curragh Priven, Rathcormac, County Cork, Ireland.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, November 19, 1898, p.1593, Naval and Military Medical Services. The Hong Kong government Gazette, January 12, 1901, #12. Staff Medical Officers of the Malta Garrison [internet].

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

Thompson, Henry Neville (1885)

updated August 31, 2013

b. March 15, 1861. Armagh Royal School, Dublin; BA, MB, Bch, Trinity College (Dubl.). Army Medical Department, Surgeon August 1884. Hong Kong 1885. Hong Kong Government, Acting Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital (vice Charles John Wharry, sick leave) 1885, (vice Michael Thomas Yarr, also a AMD surgeon) November 1-17, 1887. RAMC, Major August 2, 1896;  Lieutenant-Colonel August 2, 1904; Colonel November 17, 1913;  Major General December 26, 1917. Surgeon General, 1st Army, British Army in France 21 July 21, 1917. Nile Expedition 1898. African War 1900-1901. The Great War 1914-1918. Honor: Queen's Medal, King's Medal, DSO 1902, Delhi Durbar Medal 1903,  Coronation Medal 1911, CMG 1916, CB 1917, KCMG 1918, Croix de Guerre (France), Distinguished Service Medal (USA), Grande-Oficial Ordem Militar de Avis (Portugal).

s/o Reverend Mungo Neville Thompson,  Rector of Clonmany, Donegal, and Charlotte Blake, of Castlegrove, Co. Galway.

[On his second day working at the Government Civil Hospital, Thompson asked the police to arrest the hospital's ward master, John Roy (32), and his predecessor, Henry Watson (35), for stealing from patients in the hospitals two of whom were in dying conditions. Watson instantaneously fled to Canton where he was later apprehended by a Hong Kong police inspector on November 4. He was charged with four counts of larceny and was sentenced to seven years hard labor. Roy was charged with aiding and abetting Watson, but was discharged by proclamation. It was quite ironic that while Roy was being tried, he himself became the victim of theft. The offenders were Ho Abo, Roy's servant, and Ho Awai, a nurse of the hospital; both were charged with theft.]

Selected bibliography: AngloBoerWar.com [internet]. The China Mail, November 5, 1997, p.3, The Government Civil Hospital Scandal; November 24, 1887, p.3, Two of the Hospital Servants Charged with Theft; December 21, 1887, p.3, The Civil Hospital Case; The Charge against John Roy. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Colonial Surgeon for the Year 1887.

Monteith, Hugh Glencairn (1919)

updated November 12, 2013.

Hugh Glencairn Monteith ca.1907

b. May 11, 1882, Moniaive, Glencairn, Dumfries, Scotland – d. October 10, 1963, Truro, Cornwall, England. Fettes College; BA, BSc (Cantab.) 1902; studied medicine at Pembroke College, Cambridge. RAMC, Lieutenant July 29, 1910. Captain January 29, 1914. Acting Lieutenant-Colonel July 1, 1917 - March 17, 1919. Hong Kong nlt.1919, 47th Field Ambulance [1]. Acting Lieutenant-Colonel July 10, 1919. Major July 29, 1922. Deputy Assistant Director, Medical Services January 19, 1934. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel May 1, 1934. Colonel January 1, 1937. Director of Medical Services, Army in Burma, 1938-40. Retired, May 1, 1940. Honor: DSO 1915 [2]; MID (2) January 1, 1916 and July 10, 1919; OBE net1919-nlt1924.

HONG KONG nlt.1919. Acting member of the Medical Board and Acting Medical Officer of Health (vice Alice Deborah Sibree) August 12, 1919.

s/o Rev. John Monteith, b.1837-d.1886, of Glencairn Parish and Ellen Maria Neve, b.ca.1844-d.1912. Siblings: 1. John Cassels Monteith. 2. William Neve Monteith [3]. 3. Muriel Monteith [4].
m. Dorothy Huntly Dunell 1915. Had issues: 1. Ronald Hugh Monteith [5]. 2. Cynthia Helen Monteith, m. John William Maxwell Aitken [6] 1939.

[Monteith started playing rugby while studying at Cambridge. He played for the Scottish (National) Rugby Team from 1905 to 1908, and was listed in 1905 as an army player with eight international caps.]

[Monteith could possibly be the only Medical Officer of Health in Hong Kong who didn't have a medical degree. Should I keep him in this roll if he wasn't a doctor? I suppose there is no urgency in making a decision now.]

[1] RAMC provided non-emergency ambulatory assistance to the Hong Kong Fire Services prior to 1953.

[2] "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in picking up and attending to the wounded under heavy fire in the actions near St. Jean and Wieltje, east of Ypres, between 23rd and 27th April, 1915, when the casualties in the battalion to which he was attached were very heavy.", The London Gazette, September 14, 1915, p.9176.

[3] He lost two brothers in the Great War, who were killed within a week of each other: John Cassels Monteith, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire (K.I.A. October 1, 1915); and William Neve Monteith, Lieutenant (Reverend) of the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigate (The Prince Consort's Own)(K.I.A. September 25, 1919). The two were respectively the first and second son of his father.

[4] Muriel Monteith, b.ca.1882-d.1964; m. Lieutenant Colonel Jack Balfour Paul, DSO; had issues: 1. Hugh Glencairn Balfour Paul, British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia; historian (specialized in the Middle East) and poet.

[5] Ronald Hugh Monteith, b.1918. Grenadier Guards, Cadet; Second Lieutenant September 21, 1940; Captain; died on active service (said to be as a result of accident in scout car and tank transporter), Rhineland; bur. Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

[6] John William Maxwell Aitken, a Canadian, was, among other offices held, Chancellor of the University of New Brunswick. He was an extraordinary British life peer who disclaimed his barony title three days after he inherited it from his father.

Selected bibliography: Army Rugby Union › International Caps – Army Players [internet]. ESPN › Scrum › Scotland › Players & Officials [internet]. British Military List 1939. Family Search – Community Trees [internet]. Goalserve.com [intrnet]. Grenadier Guards Officers Casualties- WWII [internet]. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, August 22, 1919, Appointment #379; August 29, 1919, Appointment #398. The London Gazete, March 16, 1934; May 8, 1934; May 7, 1940. Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year 1919, Hong Kong. The Peerage [internet]. Roll of Honor › Dumfrieshire › Moniaive War Memorial [internet]. Supplement to the London Gazette, July 10, 1919. p.8774; October 1, 1940, p.5775. University of Glasgow › Name Search › Special Collection [internet].

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.