The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) was a specialist corps in the British Army which provided medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.
Colonel Cluny Macpherson was a physician and the inventor of an early gas mask. After World War I he served as the president of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association.
Charles Gordon Timms & Three Bars (1884–1958) was a doctor, decorated officer in the British Army, and rugby union player who played for the Lions. He was one of the minority of rugby players who was never capped for a home nation to play for the Lions. He is also one of four soldiers to have been awarded the Military Cross four times, all in the First World War.
Kenneth Adams Hunter OBE, CStJ, CD, QHP, was the 17th and 20th Canadian Surgeon General.
Elston Grey-Turner was a British medical doctor who served in World War II and was on the staff of the British Medical Association for many years.
Joseph Lievesley Beeston, was a politician, surgeon and soldier in New South Wales, Australia.
Major-General Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth, was a British physician, surgeon, and British Army officer. From 1930 to 1935, he was Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College. During World War II, he served as Director of Medical Services of the Joint War Organization.
George Ronald Hargreaves OBE, FRCP, MRCS was a civilian and military psychiatrist.
The 1950 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders. The awards celebrated the passing of 1949 and the beginning of 1950, and were announced on 2 January 1950.
Alice Mabel Headwards-Hunter, LAH, FRCSEd was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She was born in India, educated in England and qualified as a doctor by becoming a licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall of Ireland (LAH). To gain surgical experience she returned to India serving as a Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) then working at Peshawar Municipal Hospital. After beccoming the first woman Fellow of the RCSEd in 1920, she returned to India where she spent the rest of her professional life, caring mainly for women and children. The Indian Government recognised her service by the award of the Kaiser-i-Hind medal and the Hunter Doig Medal, awarded by the RCSEd is named for her.
Alan Clive Roberts was a British materials scientist, consultant and engineer who specialised in biomaterials, clinical prosthetics and implants in reconstructive surgery. He specialised in the research, development and the use of tissue adhesives in wound management. He is known by some as the "father of tissue adhesive".
The 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as part of the Queen's Official Birthday celebrations during the month of June. The Queen's Birthday Honours for the United Kingdom were announced on 9 June; the honours for New Zealand were announced on 4 June and for Australia on 11 June.
Alfred George Barrs, M.D., F.R.C.P. Hon. LL.D was a physician and professor of medicine. He was among the first medical professionals to identify a link between tuberculosis and pleural effusions.
Robert William Johnstone was a Scottish obstetrician and gynaecologist. For some 20 years he was Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh. He was a founding Fellow and subsequently vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He served as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1943 to 1945.
David Shannon TD FRCOG was a British obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital in Glasgow and the Royal Samaritan Hospital
James Johnston Mason Brown OBE, FRCSEd was a Scottish paediatric surgeon. During World War II he served as a surgical specialist with the 8th Army in North Africa and Italy and was awarded the OBE for this service. As surgeon-in-chief at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, he edited the major textbook The Surgery of Childhood. He was the joint founder of the Scottish Surgical Paediatric Society and a founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS), of which he became president. He was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) in 1962 but died in office aged 56 years.
As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards made within royal prerogative, operational honours, political honours and other honours awarded outside the New Years Honours and Birthday Honours.
Horace Stansfield Collier was a British surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London, and the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (1897–1911). His brother was the physician and neurologist James Stansfield Collier.
Lieutenant Colonel William Hilgrove Leslie McCarthy,, known as Leslie McCarthy, was an Irish-British physician and British Army officer, who served as coroner of the King's/Queen's Household from 1934 to 1955. He received multiple decorations while serving as a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the First World War.
