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*[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://web.archive.org/web/20120203001248/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Wounded_01.htm "Wounded in Mesopotamia"] from an official report by Major R. Markham Carter
**[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1917/jul/04/mesopotamia-commission Mesopotamia Commission] Hansard 04 July 1917. Mentions Major Carter*Sylvester - John Henry Sylvester was appointed to the Bombay Medical Service in 1853. His book [http://books.google.com/books?id=F3UIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Recollections of the campaign in Malwa and Central India: under Major General Sir Hugh Rose''] by Assistant Surgeon John Henry Sylvester 1860 Google Books is about the campaign during the Indian Mutiny. C 1875 he wrote a manuscript which was published in 1971 by Macmillan, London under the title ''Cavalry surgeon : the recollections of Deputy Surgeon-General John Henry Sylvester, Bombay Army''
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