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*Basu - 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). Also see ''A Doctor in the Army'' by Satyen Basu (Calcutta 1960)
*Guthrie - James. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096777200501300305 Abstract of an article] "‘It seems he is an Enthusiast about Tibet’: Lieutenant-Colonel James Guthrie, OBE (1906–71)" by Alex McKay, ''Journal of Medical Biography'' Volume: 13 issue: 3, page(s): 128-135 Issue published: August 1, 2005. Of the more than 20 officers of the Indian Medical Service who served in Tibet during 1904–50, when British Indian diplomats were stationed in that Himalayan state, James Guthrie was perhaps the most successful both in gaining the goodwill of the Tibetans and in advancing the reputation of medicine there. A Scotsman, Guthrie served in various military hospitals in India before his posting to Gyantse in southern Tibet in 1934–36, and during World War II he rose to be Assistant Director of Medical Services at the 10th Army headquarters in Teheran and Baghdad. In 1945 he was posted to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa as Medical Officer to the British mission there. With his wife, who had nursing experience, he remained there until 1949.
*Limaye - Captain Gopal Gangadhar Limaye received a temporary commission in the Indian Medical Service in early 1918 . He was with the 87th Punjabis 1918-1921. He saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920. He wrote ''War Memoirs'' , in Marathi , in 1939: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/366403 ''Sainyaan'tiila Aat'havand-ii'']. or ''Sainyatil Athavani''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.366403 Archive.org mirror version], where the Introduction is in English. (The author is catalogued as Limaye Go Gan'). Some excerpts in English may be found in [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=5004 “Yet another Indian First World War memoir found!”] November 14, 2012 amitavghosh.com. (retrieved 10 May 2014).
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1953602/?page=1 Obituary of R Markham Carter] 1875-1961 from the ''British Medical Journal'', with an additional [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1968961/?page=1 tribute] (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc) A large part of his career was in Bombay. He was renowned for the stand he took in respect of the appalling conditions suffered by casualties at Basra in Mesopotamia during the [[First World War]].
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/battles/p_meso_commission.htm His evidence about Mesopotamia] National Archives online exhibition. He is also quoted in [http://web.archive.org/web/20120203001248/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Wounded_01.htm "Wounded in Mesopotamia"] greatwardifferent.com, now an archived page.
**[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1917/jul/04/mesopotamia-commission Mesopotamia Commission] Hansard 04 July 1917. Mentions Major Carter
**[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/130588308 Article] with photograph ''The World's News'' (Sydney, NSW} : 22 September 1917 trove.nla.gov.au
*Mukherji - Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I M S arrived in Mesopotamia in 1915. After the fall of Kut he was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp at Ras al-‘Ain, Syria where he died in 1917. He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross. His letters to his family were incorporated into a book, in Bengali, available online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, catalogued as ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by Mokshada Debi (two book files) [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/477826 Pdf download 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.477826 Archive.org mirror version 1]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/336494 Pdf download 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.336494 Archive.org mirror version 2]. Some excerpts have been translated into English by Amitav Ghosh. Scroll down to the entry [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?m=201207 The ‘Home and the World’ in Iraq 1915-17: Part 1] to commence. For the final posts, [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?m=201208 scroll down to the bottom three posts]. Written July- August 2012 amitavghosh.com (retrieved 10 May 2014). [https://archive.org/stream/CalcuttaReviewJanuary1937/Calcutta-Review%2C-January-1937#page/n93/mode/2up Article in ''The Calcutta Review January 1937'', page 83] with [https://archive.org/stream/CalcuttaReviewJanuary1937/Calcutta-Review%2C-January-1937#page/n11/mode/2up photograph]. Archive.org.*O'Meara - [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/528099''I’d Live it Again''] by Lieut.-Col Eugene John O’Meara, Indian Medical Service (rtd) 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523947 Archive.org (different DLI file)]. The author is catalogued as Meara. An autobiography. He joined the IMS in 1898.
*Scriven - Captain Robert Douglas Scriven of the Indian Medical Service was awarded the Military Cross<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35670/supplement/3601/ ''London Gazette'' Tuesday 18 August 1942] Supplement:
35670 Page: 3601</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>
**”[https://archive.org/stream/recollectionsoft00gordrich#page/84/mode/2up Page 85] The author transferred into the 10th Regiment of Foot by purchase: “at this date [1851] regimental appointments in India had their market value”
:[https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012884603 ''Our trip to Burmah. With notes on that country''] by Surgeon-General Charles Alexander Gordon, Army Medical Department, Principal Medical Officer, British Forces, Madras Presidency. 1877 Archive.org
*Gosse - [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org mirror version]. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917, in the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division, then appointed Rat Officer to the 2nd Army, who subsequently served in India, based at Poona, 1917-1918. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*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.
