29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
*Lucas - Colly Lyon Lucas joined the EIC’s service 9 January 1764. "A Lucas Family: From Ireland to India" by David Atkinson [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] ''Number 26 Autumn 2011'', pages 11-25
*McPherson - Duncan McPherson (MacPherson) became an Assistant Surgeon in 1836. He was the author of [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R-IvAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Two Years in China: Narrative of the Chinese Expedition, from its formation in April, 1840, till April, 1842 : with an appendix, containing the most important of the general orders & despatches published during the above period''] by Duncan McPherson, MD, Madras Army, Attached to the Service of His Highness the Nizam and lately with the [[37th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|37th Grenadier Regiment]] in [[1st China War|China]]. 1842 Google Books
*Paterson - [http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18404054#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=16&z=-0.6663%2C-0.0773%2C2.3327%2C1.4653 Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson] Assistant Surgeon, Madras from 1832. Served until at least 1857. Includes his [http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18404054#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=11&z=-0.5681%2C-0.2868%2C2.3095%2C1.4507 Document of Commission]. Wellcome Library Digital Collection. RAMC/217.
*Ross - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Ross Ronald Ross] (Wikipedia). Madras Medical Service 1881-1899. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on malaria, researched while he was in India.
** [https://archive.org/details/memoirswithfulla00rossuoft ''Memoirs, with a Full Account of the Great Malaria Problem and its Solution''] by Ronald Ross 1923 Archive.org. He recounts receiving very little official support for his research.
===Bombay===
*Lassen - [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1460018/Brigadier-Peter-Lassen.html Brigadier Peter Lassen] 23 Apr 2004 ''The Telegraph''. Born 1908, he joined the RAMC in 1934. Initially posted to a military hospital in Rawalpindi, he saw action on the North West Frontier in the [[Mohmand Campaign 1935| Mohmand Campaign of 1935]] and in the Khaisora operation of 1936-37. He left India in 1940.
*Le Quesne - [http://web.archive.org/web/20120731052801/http://www.ramcjournal.com/2009/mar09/starling.pdf “War in Burma-the Award of the Victoria Cross to Ferdinand Simeon Le Quesne"] (pdf) by PH Starling from ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps March 2009'', now an archived page. The award was for action in [[Burma]] 4 May 1889 when he was a Surgeon Captain with the [[9th Regiment of Foot|2nd Norfolk Regiment]]. He would have been part of the British Army Medical Services at this time, not the Indian Medical Service. He had later (broken) service in Burma and India until 1909.
*Mainprise - Cecil Mainprise. [http://intotibet1903-04.blogspot.com/2008/12/2nd-rajput-mess-alipore-calcutta.html Field Force to Lhasa 1903-1904]. Fifty letters home by Captain Cecil Mainprise of the Royal Army Medical Corps who took part in the [[Tibet Expedition]]. ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZofGb9W5CzYJ:intotibet1903-04.blogspot.com/2008/12/2nd-rajput-mess-alipore-calcutta.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL) His [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2068462/?page=2 obituary] in the ''British Medical Journal'' 3 March 1951 indicates he had further service in India, including the [[3rd Afghan War]] of 1919.*Master - [http://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18510097#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=9&z=-0.2057%2C-0.0352%2C1.4116%2C0.8867 Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service], re campaigning with the [[2nd Regiment of Foot|Queens Regiment]] against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The [[Tirah Campaign]]). Wellcome Library Digital Collection, catalogue reference RAMC/185.
*McGrigor - Sir James McGrigor, later Director-General of the Army Medical Department, spent a short time in Bombay and Ceylon with the [[88th Regiment of Foot]] from mid 1799. [http://books.google.com/books?id=AE40AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 Chapter VI of his autobiography]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=AE40AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 ''The Autobiography and Services of Sir James McGrigor, bart., late Director-General of the Army Medical Department, with an appendix of notes and original correspondence], Chapter VI, page 92 1861 Google Books</ref>
*Oates - *'"A Woman Doctor" by Dr. Ivy Oates, nee Nicholls. She qualified in July 1941, joined the Army in September 1942 and was subsequently posted to India [http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/25/a3890225.shtml Part Three], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/39/a4181339.shtml Part Four], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/48/a4181348.shtml Part Five] BBC’s WW2 People’s War ([http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/53/a3890153.shtml Part One] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/07/a3890207.shtml Part Two])
