Notable surgeon during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Strong advocate of the antiseptic surgical methods proposed by Joseph Lister and he served in conflicts such as the Boer War. An advocate and pioneer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Perhaps the most decorated surgeon in Britain. Served as Serjeant Surgeon to Edward VII. M/O in Chief in the St John Ambulance Brigade, Metropolitan Corps, 1887-1901. Knight Grace in the Order of St John.
Born Belfast. Died Bath, Somerset.
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Sir William MacCormac, Bart. KCB, KCVO, MD, FRCS
Despite its appearance this memorial does not commemorate those who died in w...
Temporary Leading Fireman of Poplar Fire Station who died, aged 26 years, fighting a fire aboard the petroleum gas tanker the M. V. Rudi M, at Limehouse Basin on 25 January 1980. 50 firemen had bee...
Soldier. He enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment in August 1915 at the age of twelve, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, then aged thirteen. In the 106th Machine Gun Company of the Mach...
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - stretcher bearer. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Cyril Swerner was born in 1914 in Mile End, the second son and child of the five childr...
Member of the ARP/Civil Defence Services - auxiliary ambulance driver. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: Victor Ronald Tidder was born on 3 February 1908 in Bow, the eighth of the te...
Either lost his life, or gave distinguished service to the London Fire Brigade, and was buried in the Highgate Cemetery plot between 1884 and 1955.
We are immensely grateful to our Welsh consultant, David Hopkins, who took the time, not just to translate, but also to correctly punctua...
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