List of Indian Medical Service officers

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This is an incomplete list of officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) before independence. [1]

Contents

A to B

NameYear of entryComments
Alfred William Alcock 1885Passed eighth in the IMS. [2]
Henry John Andrews 1917Died in action during the Waziristan campaign (1919–1920) [3]
George Bidie 1856Served during Indian rebellion of 1857 [4]
Edward Alfred Birch 1866Served through Bihar famine of 1873–74. [5]
George Birdwood 1854Became a leading authority on Indian handicraft. [6]
Gerald Bomford 1874Became Director-General of the IMS in 1905, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. [7]
Charles Bowle-Evans 1894Served with relief force at Chitral Expedition and took part in the Tochi Expedition. [8]
Wajid Ali Khan Burki 1926Ranked first among the only four officers selected from a pool of over sixty foreign-qualified candidates. Served in World War II, earned the awards of MBE and CBE. Reached the rank of Lieutenant General and served as Director General of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps. [9]

C

NameYear of entryComments
Archibald Campbell (doctor) 1827Superintendent of Darjeeling. [10]
Henry Vandyke Carter Made dissections for Gray's Anatomy . [11]
Henry Cayley 1857Passing at top of the list in IMS exam. Later, awarded the Mutiny Medal. [12]
Havelock Charles Professor of Anatomy at Calcutta Medical College. [13]
P. V. Cherian ENT surgeon. [14]
Rickard Christophers
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty 1855First Indian to pass IMS exam January 1855. [15]
William Robert Cornish 1854
John Corse Scott
John Crimmin
Dirom Grey Crawford 1881Wrote the history of the IMS [16]
David Douglas Cunningham
Hiraji Cursetji

D to G

NameYear of entryComments
Umedram Lalbhai Desai
Charles Donovan
Stewart Ranken Douglas
Jamshedji Duggan
Theodore Duka
Alfred Eteson [17]
Joseph Fayrer
John Fleming (Gatton and Saltash MP)
Benjamin Franklin (surgeon) 1869
Peter Freyer 1875Urological surgeon. [18]
Henry Goodeve 1831First professor of midwifery and anatomy in 1835, at Calcutta Medical College. [19]
Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage 1907Obstetrics and gynaecology. [20]
Charles Robert Mortimer Green 1886

H to L

NameYear of entryComments
Arthur Francis Hamilton 1905Professor at the Grant Medical College. [21]
George Harris (physician)
William Frederick Harvey
Patrick Hehir
Thomas Holbein Hendley
Richard Hingston
Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
Robert Knowles (parasitologist)
Frank Lake
Trevor Lawrence
A. D. Loganathan
George Carmichael Low
Alvaro de Loyola Furtado
Pardey Lukis

M to S

NameYear of entryComments
Archibald Currie MacGilchrist
Frederick Percival Mackie
J. S. S. Martin
Robert McCarrison
Anderson Gray McKendrick
Thomas Moore-Lane
Frederic J. Mouat
Thomas Shephard Novis
Harold Rothery Nutt
David Prain
Amar Prasad Ray
Leonard Rogers
Ronald Ross
Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi
R. B. Seymour Sewell
Henry Edward Shortt
Kanwar Singh
John Alexander Sinton
J. N. Sen Gupta1940Was attached with the 21st Field Ambulance during the Battle of Keren, where he died on 17 March 1941.He is commemorated at the Keren Cremation Memorial, Eritrea. [22]
Sahib Singh Sokhey
John William Watson Stephens
Charles Stiebel(medical missionary)1914
  • 1st Indian General Hospital(1914)
  • 5th Indian General Hospital(1915)
  • 135th Indian Field Ambulance
  • Attached to 62nd Punjabis
  • Fell in action, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1917
John Stephenson (zoologist)

T to W

NameYear of entryComments
William Temple (VC)
Thomas Thomson (botanist)
R. Marthanda Varma
Philip Verdon
Laurence Waddell
Frank Wall (herpetologist)
Herbert James Walton
Harry Frederick Whitchurch
Alfred Whitmore
Thomas Williams (Kennington MP)

References

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  2. C., W. T.; K., S. W.; M-B., P. (1933). "Alfred William Alcock. 1859-1933". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (2): 119–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1933.0008. JSTOR   768748.
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  6. Chirol, Valentine (2004). "Birdwood, Sir George Christopher Molesworth (1832–1917), administrator in India" . In Prior, Katherine (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31896.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)(subscription required)
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  9. Pakistan affairs v.10-12 inc. 1957-1959. Government of Pakistan. 1959. pp. 140, 141.
  10. Crawford, Dirom (1914), p.132
  11. Crawford, Dirom (1914), p.369
  12. England, Royal College of Surgeons of. "Cayley, Henry - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  13. "Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association". British Medical Journal. 2 (2022): 830–851. 30 September 1899. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2022.830. ISSN   0007-1447. PMC   2412400 .
  14. "Directorate of Medical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu". www.mmc.ac.in. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  15. P. C. Sen Gupta (1970). "Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty: the first Indian contributor to modern medical science". Med. Hist. 14 (2): 183–191. doi:10.1017/S0025727300015374. PMC   1034039 . PMID   4914687.
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  17. "Service Notes", The Indian Medical Gazette, May 1910, p. 197.
  18. "Sir Peter Freyer". www.baus.org.uk. British Association of Urological Surgeons. 18 April 2019.
  19. "Munks Roll Details for Henry Hurry Iles Goodeve". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  20. Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (18821961). Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  21. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). (2014) RCOG Roll of Active Service, 1914-1918. London: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. p. 7. Archived here.
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