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*John Williamson Palmer 1825-1906 was an American doctor, appointed, in Hong Kong, surgeon on the EIC war steamer Phlegethon (Bengal Marine). The previous surgeon, returning from a dinner party had slipped overboard and was drowned. The Phlegethon took part in the [[2nd Burma War]] in 1852-1853 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=CIUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 ''The golden Dagon, or, Up and down the Irrawaddi: being passages of adventure in the Burman Empire''] by John Williamson Palmer 1856 Google Books details his experiences. He also wrote [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta. <ref> reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref> [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=FKXovyWeMYIC&pg=PA389 Biographical details] <ref> ''"Words for the hour": a new anthology of American Civil War poetry'', edited by Faith Barrett, Cristanne Miller Google Books </ref>

*[http://www.archive.org/stream/pennellafghanfr00penngoog#page/n12/mode/1up ''Pennell of the Afghan frontier; the life of Theodore Leighton Pennell, M.D., B. SC., F.R.C.S. Kaisar-i-Hind medal for public service in India''] by Alice Maud Pennell 1914. Dr Pennell of the Bannu Medical Mission died at the age of 44.

*Laura and Charles Hope were Baptist medical missionaries from Australia, for most of the period 1893 to 1934, as described in the [http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140557b.htm Australian Dictionary of Biography].