This is an incomplete list of officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) before independence. [1]
Name | Year of entry | Comments |
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Alfred William Alcock | 1885 | Passed eighth in the IMS. [2] |
Henry John Andrews | 1917 | Died in action during the Waziristan campaign (1919–1920) [3] |
George Bidie | 1856 | Served during Indian rebellion of 1857 [4] |
Edward Alfred Birch | 1866 | Served through Bihar famine of 1873–74. [5] |
George Birdwood | 1854 | Became a leading authority on Indian handicraft. [6] |
Gerald Bomford | 1874 | Became Director-General of the IMS in 1905, succeeding Benjamin Franklin. [7] |
Charles Bowle-Evans | 1894 | Served with relief force at Chitral Expedition and took part in the Tochi Expedition. [8] |
Name | Year of entry | Comments |
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Archibald Campbell (doctor) | 1827 | Superintendent of Darjeeling. [9] |
Henry Vandyke Carter | Made dissections for Gray's Anatomy . [10] | |
Henry Cayley | 1857 | Passing at top of the list in IMS exam. Later, awarded the Mutiny Medal. [11] |
Havelock Charles | Professor of Anatomy at Calcutta Medical College. [12] | |
P. V. Cherian | ENT surgeon. [13] | |
Rickard Christophers | ||
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty | 1855 | First Indian to pass IMS exam January 1855. [14] |
William Robert Cornish | 1854 | |
John Corse Scott | ||
John Crimmin | ||
Dirom Grey Crawford | 1881 | Wrote the history of the IMS [15] |
David Douglas Cunningham | ||
Hiraji Cursetji |
Name | Year of entry | Comments | |
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Umedram Lalbhai Desai | |||
Charles Donovan | |||
Stewart Ranken Douglas | |||
Jamshedji Duggan | |||
Theodore Duka | |||
Alfred Eteson [16] | |||
Joseph Fayrer | |||
John Fleming (Gatton and Saltash MP) | |||
Benjamin Franklin (surgeon) | 1869 | ||
Peter Freyer | 1875 | Urological surgeon. [17] | |
Henry Goodeve | 1831 | First professor of midwifery and anatomy in 1835, at Calcutta Medical College. [18] | |
Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage | 1907 | Obstetrics and gynaecology. [19] | |
Charles Robert Mortimer Green | 1886 |
Name | Year of entry | Comments |
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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 Gupta | 1940 | Was 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. [21] |
Sahib Singh Sokhey | ||
John William Watson Stephens | ||
Charles Stiebel(medical missionary) | 1914 |
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John Stephenson (zoologist) |
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty, also spelled Surjo Kumar Chakraborty was the first Indian to pass the examination of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) in 1855 and subsequently became the Professor of Materia Medica at Calcutta Medical College (CMC) in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
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