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*Captain Robert Douglas Scriven of the Indian Medical Service was awarded the Military Cross<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35670/supplements/3601/page.pdf London Gazette Tuesday 18 August 1942]</ref> for his escape in 1942 from a Japanese P.O.W. camp, following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 His story is told in this [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1469554/Colonel-Tony-Hewitt.html obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt].<ref>
[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1469554/Colonel-Tony-Hewitt.html Obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt] www.telegraph.co.uk 17 Aug 2004</ref>
*Satyen Basu, a doctor from Calcutta, joined the Indian Medical Service early in the Second World War and served with the Allied forces in Iraq, Syria and North Africa. His unit surrendered near Tobruk in 1942 and he was transported to a POW camp in southern Italy, not far from Naples. His story is told in [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=14 "An Indian POW in Italy"] (scroll to the bottom of the page for part 1). amitavghosh.com (retrieved 2 May 2014). ''A Doctor in the Army'' by Satyen Basu (Calcutta 1960) is available at the [[British Library]]
===Royal Army Medical Corps and the earlier British Army Medical Services===
