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*George Edward Seward, who joined the Bombay Medical Service in 1855, is the subject of this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-04/1302658336 post]. His service included that of Medical Officer and Cantonment Magistrate at Baroda, where he was instrumental in discovering poison in the cup given through the Gaekwar’s agents to Sir Robert Phayre in 1874, later giving evidence at the famous Baroda trial.
*[http://www.bmj.com/cgi/pdf_extract/1/5229/908 Obituary of R Markham Carter] 1875-1961 from the ''British Medical Journal''. 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]].
===Indian Medical Service===
*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>
===Royal Army Medical Corps and the earlier British Army Medical Services===
