Myles, Charles Duncan (1930-1933)

updated April 12, 2014.

d. November 1, 1957. MB (Dubl.) 1900. RAMC 1900^[1]-1934. Promotions: retired 1934, final rank: Colonel; ceased to be Reserve Officer May 9, 1937. Service: Aldershot 1900; Dublin 1901; The Great War, Geneva, Switzerland, Commander of #2 Ambulance Train;  Hong Kong nlt.1930. Royal Society of Promotion of Health, Member 1913, Fellow 1932. Honor: OBE (for services with the British Expeditionary Force in France) 1918. Address: Frimley Green, Surrey 1941.

HONG KONG nlt.1930. Sanitary Board (vice Douglas Gordon Cheyne) February 28, 1930 - May 22, 1930, resigned. President, St. Patrick's Society 1932.

m. Letitia Francis [s.n.]. Had issues: Thomas Picton Myles (b.1912; RAMC (#72898), KIA Bangalore, Mysore, India November 3, 1942, bur. Madras Was Cemetery, Chennai).

Publications: Suicide in a Fit of Temporary Insanity, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 13, 1092, p.437. Peregrinations and Passports, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 59, 1932, p.452.

[1] Myles scored a mark of 2,040 at his RAMC entry examination held in London in 1900. He ranked #6 in a total of nine successful candidates.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, September 1, 1900, p.608; March 16, 1901, p.683. The Edinburgh Gazette, June 10, 1918, p.2016Hong Kong Government, Report of the Head of the Sanitary Department for the Year 1930. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 30, 1930, #326. Journal of the Royal Society of Promotion of Health, January 1, 1958. The London Gazette, May 14, 1937, p.3186. St. Patrick's Society Hong Kong [internet]. The War Graves [internet].

Cheyne, Douglas Gordon (1929-1930)

updated April 11, 2014.

Douglas Gordon Cheyne. Credit: The Cheyne Family Website.

b. October 30, 1889, Aberdeenshire, Scotland - d. June 24, 1966. MB, ChB 1910, MD 1914 (Aberd.); DPH 1914. RAMC (#14491) 1914, promotions: Lieutenant October 9, 1914, Captain April 9, 1918, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel October 30, 1938, Colonel October 4, 1944, Brigadier, ceased to be Reserve of Officers 1950; service: The Great War, Belgium, Italy 1915-19, India 1919, Royal Army Medical College, Shanghai, Deputy Assistant Director Hygiene (DADH), China Command (Shanghai Defense Force) February 12, 1927, Hong Kong nlt.1929, WWII, North Africa. Honor: MC November 1918; OBE; CBE August 5, 1943; MID August 4, 1945; Legion of Merit (USA) March 20, 1947.

HONG KONG nlt.1929-1930. Sanitary Board (vice John Southhey Bostock) December 2, 1929 - February 28, 1930, resigned.

Walter Smith Cheyne. Credit: The Cheyne Family Website.

s/o Walter Smith Cheyne (MBChM 1876, MD 1887 (Aberd.); private practitioner) and Fanny Fern Middleton. Siblings: 1. Louisa Ann Cheyne (b.1883-d.1966); 2. Edith Cheyne (b.1885-d.ca.976); 3. Grace Mary Cheyne (b.1886-d.1979); 4. subject person.
m. Helen Mary Lawrence, Shanghai 1927^[1] (b.1895, Dorset, England - d.1981, Dorset; d/o Reginald Frank Lawrence and Minnie Jackson)

Publications: Some Factors Influencing the Load of the Soldier, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 46, 1926, p.346. Notes on Typhus in Naples, [s.n.], December 5, 1943.

[1] Lawrence served in the Voluntary Aid Department during the Great War. She became a nursing Sister in 1927 in Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service after having completed training at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. She was then posted to Shanghai with the Shanghai Defense Force. It must have been quite a busy year for Lawrence as she qualified as a nursing sister, got sent to half the world away, met Cheyne and got married with him.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, February 12, 1927, p.316; August 4, 1945, p.168. The Cheyne Family Website [internet]. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Head of the Sanitary Department for the Year 1930. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, December 6, 1929, #633. The London Gazette, April 26, 1918; November 1, 1938, p.6816. The National Archives [internet]. Supplement to the British Medical Journal, September 23, 1950, p.138. Supplement to the London Gazette, September 29, 1944, p.4521. The University of Aberdeen › Roll of Honor [internet]. WW2.com [internet].

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.

Jackson, Robert Best (1930-1938)

updated March 7, 2014.

MD, Bch, DPH (Dubl.). Federated Malay States Medical Service [n.d.]-1930. Hong Kong 1930-38; whereabouts after Hong Kong unknown. Honor: OBE 1938. Address given in 1931: 28, The Grove, Coulsdon, Surrey.

HONG KONG 1930. Government doctor 1930-38, Government Malariologist April 24, 1930; Health Officer July 2, 1937; retired September 13, 1938.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, June 9, 1938, #451; July 2, 1937, #454. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1930, 1938. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Medical Department for the Year 1937. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, October 20, 1931, p.7.

Rutherford, [s.n.] (1912)

updated March 6, 2014

RN, Staff Surgeon; Hong Kong 1912.

HONG KONG 1912. Worked in the Government Bacteriology Institute from time to time.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year 1912.

O'Leary, Elystan Glodrydd Evelyn (1912)

updated March 2, 2014

d. November 8, 1942, Newtonmore, Inverness-shire, Scotland. MRCS, LRCP (Lond.) 1894; FRCS (Edin.) 1907. RN, Surgeon May 18, 1896; Fleet-Surgeon; HMS Sutlej 1908; Sicily, Italy 1908. Messina Earthquake December 28, 1908, first naval surgeon ashore to attend to the sufferers, continued for three days and three nights without cessation, afterward decorated by King Humbert of Italy, made Ufficiale dell'Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro; Surgeon-Commander May 13, 1912; Hong Kong 1912; Officer qualified as interpreter 1913 [language(s) unspecified]; the Great War.

HONG KONG 1912. Acting Assistant Superintendent, Government Civil Hospital [n.d.] - August 8, 1912.

Siblings: 1. Dr. Arthur Price Evelyn O'Leary (LRCP (Lond.) 1889; Glenelg, Scotland 1913).

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, December 26, 1942, p.770. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year 1912. The London Gazette, May 15, 1896, p.2923; April 16, 1912, p.2702; May 14, 1912, p.3477. Navy List, May 1913. North East Medals › Messina Earthquake Awards [internet]. The Register (Adelaide) May 3, 1913, p.14.

Shaw, Ernest Albert (1909)

updated December 14, 2013.

BA; MD; FHA. RN March 26, 1899; Staff Surgeon 1903; Malta 1904, Mediterranean Fever Commission 1904 [1]; Fleet Surgeon; Hong Kong nlt.1909. HMS Antrim October 2, 1911; Surgeon Commander nlt.1919. Honor: OBE 1919.

HONG KONG nlt.1909. Acting Government Bacteriologist and Medical Officer In-charge, Public Mortuary, Victoria (vice William Hunter, deceased) June 1909- April 13, 1910.

[1] The Mediterranean Fever Commission (1904-1907) was formed in 1904 by the Royal Society at the request of the Secretary for the Colonies owing to the great concern about the prevalence in Malta of Mediterranean Fever. The initial members consisted of Colonel D. Bruce RAMC as president, together with Major W.H. Horrocks RAMC, Staff Surgeon Ernest Albert Shaw RN, and Dr. T. Zammit MD, Board of Health, Malta, assisted by Captain J. Crawford Kennedy RAMC (appointed late in 1904), and by Staff-Surgeon Robert Thomas Gilmour RN (who placed his spare time at the service of the Commission in 1904 and 1905). Later members included Lieutenant-Colonel A.M. Davies RAMC, Dr J.W.H. Eyre (Bacteriologist to Guy's Hospital), Majors J.G. McNaught, T. McCulloch and J.C. Weir RAMC, Dr R.W. Johnstone (Local Government Board), Staff-Surgeon F.H.A. Clayton RN, and Fleet-Surgeon P.W. Bassett-Smith RN.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, April 4, 1903; January 2, 1919, p.58. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Reports for the Year 1909, 1910. The London Gazette, December 11, 1908, p.8196. RAMC Officers of the Malta Garrison [internet]. Supplement to the British Medical Journal, September 16, 1911, p.351. Vassallo, D. J., The Corps Disease: Brucellosis and Its Historical Association with the Royal Army Medical Corps, RAMC Journal, 1992, Vol. #138, pp.140-150.

temp. notes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1240100/
http://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/120330/wyatt-pages-4-19.pdf

May, Arthur William (1897)

updated December 14, 2013.

Sherborne School; trained at King's College Hospital, London; MRCS 1876; LRCP 1877; FRCS (Eng.) 1914. RN, Surgeon March 30, 1878; Plymouth Hospital 1879; Egyptian War 1882, HMS Achillies; Suakin Expedition, Nile Expedition (for the relief of General Gordon at Khartoum) 1884. Hong Kong nlt.1897. Surgeon Vice-Admiral. Medical Director-General, Medical Department. Honor: KCB; King's Honorary Physician; Khedive Bronze Star; MID 1884.

HONG KONG nlt.1897.

b. June 18, 1854, South Petherwin, Cornwall - d. April 20, 1925, St. Tudy, cornwall. s/o Rev. H.T. May (Fellow of New College, Oxford) and Frances Mackenzie Tew Agnew.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, May 1, 1897, p.1125; May 2, 1925, p.862.

temp. notes:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2226399/?page=1

Evatt, George Joseph Hamilton (1896)

updated March 18, 2014.

George J.H. Evatt (31) with mother and sister Emmie (18) and borther Benjamin (21), Dublin 1874. Credit: The Australian Evatt Family.

b.1843, Ireland -d. November 5, 1921. MD. AMD, Staff Assistant-Surgeon March 31, 1865; 25th Foot 1866; Surgeon; Surgeon-Major March 31, 1877; Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1884; President, Medical Officers of Schools association 1885; Surgeon-Colonel nlt.1896; Hong Kong nlt.1896-; Major-General; retired November 11, 1903. Parliamentary General Election 1886, Woolwich, Evatt Liberal (2,811 votes) lost to Edwin Hughes, Conservative (4,647 votes). Honor: CB; MID; Honorary Colonel, Home Counties Division, RAMC; KCB 1919.

HONG KONG nlt.1896. AMD, Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China 1896-1907. President, HKBMA 1897.

s/o George Joseph Evatt (British Army, Captain, 70th Surrey Regiment of Foot, India) and Mary Farrell (b.1826-d.1888). Siblings: 2. William Francis Evatt (b.1845-d.1859); 3. Susan Mary Evatt (b.1857-1863); 4. Eliza Evatt; 5. John Ashmore Hamilton Evatt (b.1851, India - d.1901); 6. Benjamin Evatt (b.1853-d.1881); 7. Emma Evatt (b.1856, m.Herbert Manners, India); all were born in Ireland except John A.H. Evatt.
m. Sophie Mary Frances Kerr, India January 15, 1877 (d. October, 1934; d/o William Walter Raleigh Kerr^[1] and Mary Rouet Wilson). Had issues; 1. Sophie Estelle Kerr Evatt (b.1878, Fyzabad, Oude, India. d.um.);

George R.K. Evatt

2. George Raleigh Kerr Evatt (b. September 30, 1883, Woolwich, England - d. November 13, 1914, bur. Rue David Military Cemetery. St. John's College, Cambridge. British Army, Captain, Middlesex Regiment, the Great War, France, killed-in-action, la Boutellerie November 14, 1914.).

Publications and Correspondences: A “Popular Lecture” at the Annual Meetings of the British Medical Association (The British Medical Journal, October 27, 1883, pp.846-847). Ambulance Organization, Equipment, and Transport (London: William Clowes & Sons, 1884, published for the Executive Council of the International Health Exhibition, and for the Council of the Society of Arts). A Metropolitan and a Provincial Meeting of the British Medical Association Annually (The British Medical Journal, May 17, 1884, pp.972-973). Surgeons of the Mercantile Marine, and Commissions in the Royal Naval Reserve (The British Medical Journal, December 6, 1884, pp.1164-1165). Proposal to form a corps of volunteer female nurses for service in the army hospitals in the field: With suggestions as to the incorporation of the nursing profession, 1885. A Report on the Poor-Law Medical System in Ireland, with Special Reference to the Dispensary Medical Service (Supplement to the British Medical Journal, 1904). The Central British Red Cross Council (The British Medical Journal, December 10, 1904, p.1615). The Reform of the Medical Register (The British Medical Journal, January 20, 1906, pp.173-174). The Scientific Organization of Physical Culture in England (The British Medical Journal, November 23, 1912, p.1499). Pamphlets published in the Journal of the RAMC: Personal recollections of the Afghan campaigns of 1879, 80; Army Medical Organization, a Comparative Examination of the Regimental & Departmental Systems, 1883; The Present and Future of the Army Medical Department, 1883; Army Medical Organization in war, with suggestions at the Militia & Volunteer aids, 1884; Army Medical Organization a Catechism for the use of the Volunteer Medical Service, 1884; Suggestions for the Organization of the Volunteer Medical Service, 1885; On the Medical Organization of the Base of Operations in Wartime, 1885; A proposal to form a Army Medical Institute, 1885; A Cadet Corps of the Volunteer Medical Service, [n.d.]; The relations of the Civil Military Medical men in Britain, [n.d.]; On the organization and duties of the Bearer Company of the Medical Corps in war, 1886; On certain reform in the Medical Staff, 1887; How to improve the Medical Register, 1890; Medical Corps Organization of Continental Armies, 1890; Remarks on the report of Lord Camperdown's Committee, 1890; Progress of Sanitary Science & Preventive Medicine, 1891; A program for the Army Medical Service, 1891; 48th. Annual Report of the Council, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. On the Organisation of a division of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, 1891; Notes on the organization & Working of the Indian Field Hospital in War, 1892; The Sanitary care of the soldier by his Officer, 1894.
Non-medical publications: Place Names in County Louth, Journal of the County Louth (Archaeological Society, October 1907, Vol. #4, p.111). A Late “Bonner” Ordination in Queen Elizabeth's Reign (Oxford Journals, May 16, 1914, p.386).

[1] William Walter Raleigh Kerr was the grandson of General William John Kerr, the 5th Marquess of Lothian.

Selected bibliography: ancestry.com [internet]. The Australian Evatt Family [internet]. The British Medical Journal, May 1, 1897, p.1125. The China Mail, July 16, 1907, p.2. The Edinburgh Gazette, September 15, 1865, p.1125; June 8, 1866, p.699. Evatt, Danny, The Evatt Clan: A Worldwide Historical Review of the Evatt Family Surname, 2013. Hong Kong Government, Report of the Colonial Surgeon for the Year 1896. In Memory by Pierre Vandervelden [internet]. The London Gazette, May 4, 1877, p.2947; December 1, 1903. Supplement to the London Gazette, July 15, 1919, p.8983.

temp. notes:
https://archive.org/stream/nightingalebiography00math#page/n5/mode/2up
http://elizabethevatt.net/EvattStory/PartOne.html

Humphreys, Edmond Cecil (1932-1940)

updated December 2, 2013.

Dentist.

LDSRCS (Lond.) June 1930.

Hong Kong nlt.1932.

HONG KONG nlt.1932. Registered dental surgeon 1932-40 [1]. Private practitioner 1932-40. Dental Board May 27, 1934 - November 1, 1935.

[1] The Dental Register 1941 is not available; it is unknown whether or not it actually exists.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 6, 1932, #285; May 25, 1934, #405; May 10, 1940, #537.

Dykes, James Stoble (1928-1936)

updated December 12, 2013.

Dentist.

LDS (St. And.) April 28, 1924. Hong Kong nlt.1928.

HONG KONG nlt.1928. Registered dental surgeon February 17, 1928-1936. Private practitioner 1928-36, address: #7 Queen's Road Central 1928. Dental Board, May 26, 1928-1936.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, February 17, 1928, #86; June 1, 1928, #313;  September 7, 1928, #503; December 6, 1935, #947; May 7, 1937, #322.

Godding, Charles Cane (1897)

updated November 22, 2013.

MRCS 1872; LSA 1872. RN, Surgeon April 1, 1873; Perak War 1875-76, HMS Modeste; Staff Surgeon November 18, 1882; Egyptian War 1882, Mallaha Junction, Kassassin and Tel-el-Kebir; HMS Agamemnon 1889-90; Gibert Blane Gold Medal, 1889 and 1890; Fleet Surgeon December 31, 1890; HMS Vernon 1894; Hong Kong 1897, HMS Centurion; Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals June 4, 1899; Inspector-General of Hospitals and Fleets December 5, 1902; retired July 1, 1907, Final Rank: Surgeon Rear Admiral. Honor: India General Service (1854)(Perak); Egypt (Tel-El-Kebir September 11, 1882); Order of Medjidie, Fourth Class (Turkey); Khedive's Star (Egypt) 1882; CB June 19, 1911.

HONG KONG 1897. RN, Fleet-Surgeon, HMS Centurion. Member, HKBMA.

b. April 21, 1851, Hampshire - d. February 1, 1939. Address 1: Devon (1901 Census); Address 2 (last known):  Aldringe Farm, Aldingbourne, Chichester.
m. [s.n.]. Had issues: 1. Harold Cane Godding, b. December 9, 1891 – d. September 20, 1961; MRCS (Eng.), LRCP (Lond.); RAMC, Colonel, MC. 2. Margery Godding, b.1893; Assistant Principal, Women's Royal Naval Service; MBE 1919; m. Alexander Eveleigh Agathos Eager (Paymaster Lieutenant, RN; b.1891; s/o Alexander Richard Eager), Malta August 16, 1919.

Publications and Correspondences: Non-Venereal Bubo, the British Medical Journal, June 12, 1897, pp.1475-1476.

Selected bibliography: Ancestry.co.uk. [internet]. The British Medical Journal, May 1, 1897, p.1125; February 11, 1939, p.310; July 26, 1941, p144. Malta Family History [internet]. The National Archives, Ref: ADM196/10/43 [internet]. Pipl [internet]. RN Surgeons [internet]. Rootsweb [internet]. Bonhams [internet]. Supplement to the London Gazette, June 19, 1911, p.4588.

Watson, John James Curl (1896)

updated November 2, 2013.

BA 1882; MB 1884; MD 1885 (Dubl.). AMD, Surgeon; Surgeon-Captain July 1886; Boyle; Dublin 1887; Aldershot; India 1892; Dublin; Hong Kong 1896. RAMC 1898, Surgeon-Major July 1898; China 1900, Boxer Rebellion, Relief of Tientsin (Tianjin) and Relief of Peking (Beijing); placed on retired pay October 1910. Honor: MID (London Gazette November 6, 1900); Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) July 22, 1901.

HONG KONG nlt.1896.

b. October 5, 1861, Woolwich – d. April 12, 1913, Swanwick, Hampshire.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, October 22, 1887, p.914; July 18. 1896, p.168; December 24, 1892, p.1410; May 1, 1897, p.1125. Dix Noonan Webb [internet].

Home, William E. (1898)

updated November 11, 2013.

BSc; MD. RN, Surgeon; HMS Swallow 1893-94 [1]; Staff Surgeon August 20, 1897; Hong Kong nlt.1898. Fleet Surgeon; HMS Excellent.

HONG KONG nlt.1898. RN, Staff Surgeon. Temporary Deputy Health Officer of the Port April 16, 1898.

[1] I found the following commendation for war service of Home while serving on Swallow:-

W. E. Home, Surgeon of Swallow, landed with Naval Brigade from Blanche, Swallow, and Sparrow, under Commander Lindley, assisted by 70 native troops at Vitui, Zanzibar [Tanzania], August, I893, to punish a robber chief, Fumo Omari, who had indulged in various acts of treachery. His fortified strongholds at Pumwani and Jongeni [Kenya] were stormed and captured with great gallantry (medal with clasp)...

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, September 4, 1897, p.620. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 16, 1898, #172.

Gilmour, Robert Thomas (1897)

updated November 11, 2013

b. November 1, 1867 [or October 20, 1867, or 1868], Hampshire, England – d.1946. Epson College 1882-85; matriculated to study at St. Mary's Hospital 1884, Entrance Scholarship; conjoint diploma of LRCP, MRCS (Lond.) 1905; LSA. RN, May 16, 1894; Surgeon, HMS Tamar nlt.1897; Hong Kong nlt.1897; HMS Vernon January 11, 1898; HMS Herald, May 1, 1899; Staff Surgeon May 16, 1902; Malta, Surgeon, Bihi Royal Naval Hospital 1902; Malta Fever Commission, Tropical Diseases Committee 1904; HMS Talbot, January 22, 1906; Fleet Surgeon May 16, 1910; HMS Glasgow September 17, 1912; retired January 12, 1916 [1]. Address in 1920: #32 Castle Hill, Maiden- head, Berkshire, England. Publications: Description of a Method of Cultivating the M. Melitensis from Small Quantities of Peripheral Blood and Inoculation Experiments with the Microorganisms Isolated, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. #5, p.435.

HONG KONG nlt.1897. Surgeon, HMS Tamar. Temporary Deputy Health Officer of the Port April 16, 1898. Honorary Surgeon, Alice Memorial Hospital. Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics, HKCMC.

s/o G. H. D. Gilmour, surgeon, of Andover, Hampshire.
m. Madelaine Starrier Malta September 8, 1903; b.1898, d/o George Henry Starrier. Had issue: 1. [s.n.] daughter, b. November 20, 1906.

[1] Only one source out of many I've reviewed named Gilmour's rank as Surgeon Commander. This cannot be right as the the rank of Surgeon Commander only came into being in 1918, it was Fleet Surgeon before that. Gilmour retired in 1916.

Selected bibliography: ancestry.com [internet]. The British Medical Journal, December 17, 1898, p.1855; May 13, 1899, p.1195; October 22, 1904, p.1122. Evans, Dafydd Emrys (Ed.), Constancy of Purpose, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1987. Hong Kong Directory for the Year 1897. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, April 16, 1898, #172. Index of Old Epsomian Biographies between 1855 and 1889, Doctors: GPs, Consultants and the Most Eminent [internet.]. The London Gazette, January 25, 1916, p.1000. Malta Family History › The Royal Navy 1900-1979 [internet]. My Heritage Genealogy [internet]. Navy List 1908 Ship Q to T [internet]. Navy List March, 1913, p.211, 382. Regiments of the Malta Garrison, The Royal Army Medical Corps [internet]. St. Mary's Hospital Gazette Vol. #1, p.445. Supplement to the British Medical Journal, September 15, 1906, p.126. William Loney RN › Background  › The Naval Surgeon.

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

Lewer, Robert (1887)

updated November 9, 2013.

b. October 3, 1835, Wimborne Minster, Dorset – d. May 29, 1914, Southsea, Hants. London Univ.; King's College Hospital; MD; MRCS December 1856; LSA March 1857; LRCP (Edin.) 1860. Volunteered for RN, Crimean War 1855, hospital dresser, HMS Bellesie. AMD, Assistant Surgeon August 1,1857, Rifle Brigade; Royal Artillery September 1857. Surgeon 1869. Staff Surgeon September 9, 1871. Surgeon-Major, March 1, 1873. Second Anglo-Afghan War, 9th Lancers, Khyber 1879; Sanitary Officer, Kabul Field Force November 1879; Acting Brigade Surgeon, Cavalry Brigade, Kabul-Kandahar march. Brigade Surgeon, Royal Infirmary Phoenix Park, Dublin April 1, 1882. Surgeon-Colonel October 16, 1886. Hong Kong 1887-88. Surgeon Major General August Agust 10, 1892. Retired October 1895. Honor: Afghan medal w/ two clasps, Sherpur and Kandahar; Bronze Star; MID.

HONG KONG October 1887-88. Deputy Surgeon General, Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China.

s/o Edward Lewer, coach maker, farmer, timber merchant, and Ann Coles.
m. Mary Elizabeth Telford, Dublin October 1860, d/o Captain Joseph Telford, 96th Foot. Had issues: 1. Robert Welsford Lewer, b.1862, Dorset -d. 1880. 2. Edward Stewart Lewer, b.1866, India, surgeon. 3. Ethel Caroline May Lewer, b.1870, Norwich, m. John Stewart Davison, Army Medical Staff. 4. Edith Augusta, 1873, Fulford, m. Percy Hamilton Boyden, Surgeon Commander, RN. 5. Beatrice Maud Lewer, b.1875, Sialkot, India, m. Charles Frederick Wanhill, RAMC.

Selected bibliography: The British Medical Journal, August 27, 1892, p.491; June 27, 1914, p.1436. Hong Kong Government, Colonial Surgeon's Report for the Year 1887. The Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-1880 [internet]. The Second Anglo-Afghan War Database Project [internet].

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

Begbie, Ralph Stockman (1930)

updated November 7, 2013.

b.1901 – d. January 31, 1952, (a hospital in ) Glasgow. MBChB, MD (Edin.); MRCP (Edin.); DPH, DTMH (Edin.). Hong Kong nlt.1930-ca.1945. Scotland, last known address: #23, Carrick Road, Ayr 1952. Publications: Occurrence of Typhoid-Paratyphoid Bacilli in Sewage, Some Further Observation, The British Medical Journal, June 12, 1930, pp.55-56, co-author: H.J. Gibson, MB, DPH; both were from the Department of Bacteriology, Edinburgh Univ.

HONG KONG nlt.1930. Government doctor. Assistant Medical Officer of Health May 9, 1930. Acting Government Bacteriologist (vice Aubrey Vernon Greaves, absence on leave) January 31, 1934 and January 24, 1939. Assistant Government Bacteriologist November 9, 1934. Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, interned 1941-1945.

Selected bibliography: ancestry.com [internet]. The British Medical Journal, October 6, 1945, p.482, Medical News; February 16, 1952, p.395, Medical News. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 23, 1930, #314; January 26, 1934, #51; December 7, 1934, #926.

[Proactive research ended November 7, 2013.]

Shaw, George Ingram (1934)

updated November 5, 2013.

MBChB (Glas.); DTMH (Eng.) DPH (Edin.). Singapore 1931, Lieutenant, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force 1931. Malaysia, Negeri Sembilan 1932, Medical Officer, Tampin 1932; Acting Medical Officer, Seremban 1932. Hong Kong 1934-40. Wartime and postwar whereabouts unknown.

HONG KONG 1934-40. Government doctor. Medical Officer December 13, 1934. Medical Office In-Charge, Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kennedy Town 1935-36. Resident Medical Officer, Hong Kong Prison nlt.1938 - August 4, 1939. Health Officer November 2, 1940. Lieutenant, HKVDC September 4, 1936.

Selected bibliography: Hong Kong Government, Annual Report of the Prisons Department for the Year 1939. Hong Kong Government Report, Medical Report for the Year 1934. Hong Kong Government, Medical and Sanitary Report for the Year 1935, 1936. The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 11, 1935, #749; November 22, 1940, #1273. The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, March 19, 1932, p.3. The Straits Times, September 22, 1931, p.10, Social & Professional.

[Proactive research ended November 5, 2013.]

Brown, Henry Herbert (1900)

updated November 3, 2013.

RAMC, Major; Hong Kong nlt.1900, Acting Principal Medical Officer, Hong Kong and China. Publications: A Method of Fly-proofing in Indian Latrines, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 54, 1930, Clinical and Other Notes, p.207.

HONG KONG nlt.1900. Sanitary Board September 11, 1900.

Selected bibliography: The Hong Kong Government Gazette, September 15, 1900, #465.

[Proactive research ended October 28, 2013.]

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.]