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Brigade Surgeon Henry Black Purves, Bengal Medical Service (retired), died suddenly at Malvern on 14th August, aged 72. He was born on 2nd July 1843, educated at Edinburgh University, and took the L R. C S. and L. R. C. P. Edinburgh in 1864, also subsequently the F. R. C. S. Edinburgh in 1881. Entering the I M. S. as Assistant Surgeon on 1st October 1865, he became Surgeon on 1st July 1873, Surgeon-Major on 1st October 1877 and Brigade-Surgeon on 16th June 1889, retiring on 4th December 1895, with one of the extra compensation pensions for that year. The Army List assigns him no war service. Most of his service was spent in civil employ in Bengal where he held many important appointments, being Civil Surgeon successive- ly of Darjeeling, Burdwan, Dacca, Patna. and Howrah, as well as Superintendent of the Vernacular Medical Schools at Patna and Dacca.

Oei'dty Surgeon-General Ardeon Hulme Beaman, Madras Medical Service, retired, died at the Firs, Barnstaple, on 24th August 1915. aged 86. He was born on 10th December 1*28, and entered the I M. S. as Assistant Surgeon on 10th June 1854, becoming Surgeon on 1 th June 1866, Surgeon-ftlajor on 1st July 1873, and Brigade-Surgeon, on the institution of that rank, on 27th November 1879 He retired, with a s^ep of honorary rinfe, on 1st August 1882. Except for a brief spell, in his early service, as (Hvil Surgeon of Rajahmundry, his whole service was spent in military employment, serving successively with the 28th, 27th, 39th, 4th, and 37th Madras Native Infantry. He served in the Mopla Insurrection of 1855, when he was present in the action at Marur against the insurgents ; and in the Indian Mutiny, in Upper , in medical charge of the 2Sth Madras Native Infantry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Ronald DaCosta, Madras Medical Service, retired, died in on 14th . He was educated at St. George's, and took the L. R- C. S. and L.R.C P at Edinburgh in 1880 He entered the T. M. S. as Surgeon on 2nd April, 1881, became Surgeon- Major on 2nd April 1893, and retired on 4th August 1900. From 25th October 1890, to 6th April 1891, he was on tempo- rary half-pay on account of ill-health- He received the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel from 18th October 1902, after retire: ment, for services in Eugland in connection with the South African war.

During the fourteen days, 25th August to 8th September, inclusive, the total number of casualties among officers reported came to the huge total of 1,243, of which 1,011 occurred in t^e Dardanelles, 204 in and Flanders, the small balance of 28 in other seats of war. These may be tabulated as follows

.S = ieroiqe ^totcs. 55 o o .2 ?? - 'm 5 & S ? h Lieutenant-Colonel Medical Edwakd'Lawkie, Bengal Naval, general ...... 3 1 3 7 died at after a illness of " Service, retired, Hove, lingering lloyal Edward" ...... 13 ...... >3 over three months, on 22nd August 1915, aged 69. He was Dardanelles. born on 17th and educated at Univer- ... May 1846, Edinburgh Naval ...... 4 1 8 1 14

where he took the M. B. and C. M. in and at ... sity, 1867, ... 220 4 386 88 3 701 Paris. He also took the M. R C. S. in 1867. After Army qualify- Australians ...... 26 2 46 12 ... 86

he served as House to Professor wards in ... ing Surgeon Syme's New Zealanders ... .. 39 3 104 7 153

He entered the I. M. S. ... the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. British officers, Indian troops ... 18 ... 15 2 35 as Assistant on 30th March became ...... Surgeon 1872, Surgeon Indian officers ... 6 14 2 22 on 1st July, 1873, Surgeon-Major on 30th March, 1884, Flanders. on on 30th March and retired ... Surgeon-Lieut.-Colonel 1892, Army ... 61 5 121 2 1 193 1901. The A List him no war service. 17th May rmy assigns Canadians .:. ... 2 1 3 he was Resident of the Medical From 1874 to 1879 Surgeon British officers, Indian troops ... 3 1 2 6 for some time as Professor ... College Hospital, Calcutta, acting Indian officers .. 1 1 2 of Physiology in addition to his other duties, from 1879 to East Africa. 1885 Professor of in the Lahore Medical Surgery College, British ... 1 1 and from 1885 till his retirement he held the of ... post Residency Indians ... 1 1 one of the Surgeon of Hyderabad, the premier Indian State, . most important mcdical appointments in India. When the Indians Indian hospitals in Brighton were opened in , Persian Gulf. Colonel Lawrie was appointed anaesthetist, and carried out his Indians duties in the Pavilion and York Place Hospitals till tho Aden. beginning of his fatal illness, last May. He was best known, British however, as an ardent advocate of tho claims of chloroform to l>e the use. was best anesthetic for general It at his, sugges- Total ... 400 19 705 113 6 1,243 tion that the chloroform commission of 1889-90 was appointed, of which H. H. the Nizam paid the expenses ; Sir Lauder Among these 1,243 casualties were included twenty-nine lirunton going out from England to be its President, and medical officers, of whom five wore killed in action or died of Surgeon-Major Lawrie and Bomford (afterwards Surgeon- wounds, four wore lost in the Royal Edward, three died, one General Sir Gerald Bomford) boing the members. He embo- missing, and the other sixteen wero wounded. All but three died his views on the subject in a work called Chloroform, a occurred in the force in the Dardanelles, for which place the Manual for Students.and Practitioners, J. & A. Churchill, lloyal Edward, was bound. In the Dardanelles Lt.-Colonel , 1901. C. E. Thomas, of the New Zealand force, Surgeon F. G. Nov., 1915,] ' WAR AND SERVICE NOTES. 135

as Humphreys, r.n., and temporary Lieutenants P. T. Warren servin"" Resident Medical Officer to the Crumpsall Infir- and sixteen officers mary "and Senior House of and T. A. Peel, r.a.m.c , were killed ; Surgeon Stanley Hospital, Liver- were wounded, Lieut.-Colonels E. V. Gostling and A. R. pool W became Pathologist and Medical Officer of the Con- When the Wilson, both R. A. M. C. (T. F.) ; Major L. P. Brassey, i.M.S. ; sumption Hospital, Liverpool. war began he got a commission as Lieutenant in Captain T. R. Ritchie, New Zealand ; Lieut. J. C. Young, the 1st West Lancashire .lield k.a.m.c., Special Reserve; Lieuts. R. G. M. Ladell and T. C. Ambulance from 8th August, 1914. Clarke, R.A.M.C. Lieutenants J. D. .Jones, Lieutenant and Quartermaster John (T. F.); temporary r^Himn Frederick.Edward W. Magner, N. Matthews, H. H. Elliot, C. H. K. Smith, and K.A.M.C., wounded in the Dardanelles, retired from the K. A. M- C. as a H. E. Wall; also Lieutenants and Quartermasters W. J. Sergeant-Major* on ISth He was Rice and J. F. E. Godman, R.A.M.C.; and Captain C. V. August. 1911- appointed Lieutenant and Quarter- of the Otago Infantry, a doctor servinsc as a master'from 14th November, 1914. : . Baijjent, Lieutenant Clifford Kerr combatant officer ; while Major T. C. Savage, New Zealand, Halliday Smith, R a.m.c. (T the M. B. and B. at died. In Flanders temporary Captain J. N. Armstrong, F ) took Ch. Edinburgh in 1914, and a commission as in R.A.M.C., was killed ; Major J. L. Duval, Canadian Army lot Lieutenant the 3rd Lowland Field from 1st 1914. Medical Corps, died; and temporary Lieut. R. J. Batty. Ambulance November, He was a.son of J. C. of New South R.A.M.C., was wounded. The death of Lieut.-Colonel Smith. Esq., Sydney, , and was educated E. Lawrie, I.M.S., retired, who died at Bx-ighton, where he had been serving as anaesthetist to the York Place and atLieutenant ^Harold^ustace Macmalion Wall, R.a.m.o., a at St. s and Pavilion, Indian hospitals, was also officially recorded as wi educated Mary took the M R. C. S. Tnrl casualty in the British expeditionary force, thus showing that L 11 C P. London in 19U8. Wnen war broke out he was House to the the staffs of the Indian hospitals in England are nominally Surgeon Queen's Hospital for Children at at least, part of that force. In the Royal Edicard were lost Hackney, and got a temporary commission as [Lieutenant Lieut.-Colonel J. H. Danber, Major J. Mowat, Captain C. B. from 11th August, 1914. and Lieut. T. all R. A. M. C. Marshall, Hayhurst, Tipnfpnant James Carruthers Young, r. a.m.c., took IT. F.) H,p M B and B. 8. Durham in 1910. the M. D. in 1914. as a on the Lieutenant Peyton Tollemache Warren, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), After serving Surgeon Union-Castle Line of reported on 2Gth August as killed in the Dardanelles, Steamers to the Cape, House Physician, Accident House Sur- was educated at , where he took the L. R. C. S. I. and geon, and House Surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, L. R. C. P. I. in 1909. He was medical officer and public Newcastle-on Tyne, lie joined the R.. A. M C. Specia Re- serve as Lieutenant on 13tli vaccinator at Bryn, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, where he was August, 1914, and was called out a prominent member of the Bryn Golf and Rifle Clubs. He on 23rd September, 1914. received a commission as Lieutenant in the 3rd Welsh Field Maior James Mowat, R.A.M.C., who was lost on the Ambulance on Dth 1913. Tfmml Fdward when she was June, transport, torpedoed in the Victor R.A.M.C. Sea with loss of life, on 14th Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Gostling, aSL great August, 1915, was (T. F.), wounded in the Dardanelles, was educated jm ev-naval'officer? He was educated at Gordon's U.1W AWdeen and at the in at Cambridge and St. Thomas', and took the B. A. Cambridge University that city, where he took fhp M B C. M. in 1891. in 1890, the M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P. London in 1900. 'and Entering the Navy as ho the rank of Fleet on Surgeon, After qualifying he filled the posts of House Physician to the attained Surgeon IGth May, 1910, and Royal Infirmary, Derby, and Senior House Surgeon to soon afterwards retired. He rejoined duty at the of the war was on board H beginning Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He belonged to the and M.S. Hermes when she near last autumn. 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, of which he attained was torpedoed Soon afterwards he hkfl and was the command, as Lieutenant-Colonel, on 3th April, 1914, sick leave, discharged, on account ot the thanks of and* was a member of the Territorial Force Asso- receiving the Admiralty for his StheaU he offered ciation. iprvicps Having recovered, his services to the RAM C. and was in the Lieutenant and W. J. Rice, R.A.M.C. appointed Major 5tth Quartermaster Station from 29th 1915. Casualty (T. F.), of the 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, Clearing April, Charles joined as Lieutenant on 6th May, 1908. His name is not Lieutenant-Colonel Ernest Thomas v.i> was a nf thp New Zealand Medical in the Medical Register, as presumably he not medical Army Corps, was killed in Peninsula on man. ^Honaction lin the 28th August, 1915. He of T. R. Ritchie, New Zealand Army Medical Thomas, Esq., Packside, Tiverton,and Captain was educated Middlesex Hospital, and took was also returned as wounded in the Dardanelles on at' the L. S. A. Corps, and T R C in 1880. After 26th S. (Edin.) serving as House August. and House at 5iir

class Major Leonard Percival Brassey, I.M.S., wounded in the Cross of the Order of St. George, fourth Dardanelles, was born on 3rd May, 1876, and educated at Sergeant A. VV. Brown, R.A.M.C. (T. F.) Slst Field Ambu- Edinburgh, where he took the M B and Ch. B. in 19U0. He lance- entered the I. M. S. as Limtenant on *27tli June, 1901, Sergeant T. M. Brown, No. 1 Canadian Field Ambulance. becoming Captain on 27th June, 19l'4, and Major on 27th SergeantT- B. Carter, R.A.M.C., 19th Field Ambulance June, 1913. He is Medical Officer of the 9lst Punjabis. Sergeant R R. Davies, r.a.m c., 14tli Field Ambulance. Lieutenant Robert George Macdonald Ladell, r.a.m.c Staff Sergeant E. Dymond, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), 7th Cavalry (T, F.). wounded in the Dardanelles, was educated at Field Ambulance Leeds, and took the M. B. and Ch. B. of Victoria University 3rd class Assistant Surgeon K. P. Elloy, Indian Sub-medi- in 1902, after which he went into practice at Holbeck. Leeds. cal Dept. He joined the 5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Private M. Johns, A.s C., No. 3 Motor Ambulance Convoy, Regiment, head quarters Bast Dereham, as Lieutenant and R. A. M. C. Medical Officer, on 7th November, 1914. He is Honorary Private J. Kester, A.s.c., No. 3 Motor Ambulance Convoy, Medical Officer to the London Society for promoting R. A. M. C. Christianity among the Jews. Private W. A. Last, R A.M.o., 5th Cavalry Field Ambu- Surgeon Frederick James Humphreys, R.M., died of lance. wounds in the Dardanelles, was educated at St. Thomas' Private H. C. Sell, R.A.M.C. (T. F.). 81th Field Ambulance. Hospital, and took the M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P. London Private D. Wolfe, R.A.M.C., No. 5 F"ield Ambulance. in 1912, the M. B and B. S London in the same year. After Medal of St. George, first class. filling the posts of House Physician. Casualty Officer, Resident Anaesthetist, and Obstetric House Physician at St. Sergeant C Ingram, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), 85th Field Ambulance. Thomas', he joined the Navy as a temporary surgeon on 4th Medal of St. George, second class. and was with the Armoured Car August, 1914, serving 3rd class Sub-Asst. 128th Division when killed. Surgeon Gopinath Agarwal, Indian Field Ambulance. Lieutenant Thomas Alfred R.A.M.C., attached Peel, Corporal F. M. Harris. R.A.M.C. 5th Dorset was wounded in the Battalion, Regiment, Staff Sergeant W. Lamkin, R.A.M.C. Dardanelles on 19th and died 011 24th August. He August, J. H. A.s.c., No. 5 Motor Ambulance was the son of Joshua Peel, and took the Sergeant Paveley, Solicitor, Armagh, R. A. M. C. M. B. and B S. Durham in 1911. Previous to the war he was Convoy, acting as House Surgeon of Newport Hospital, and received a Medal of St. George, third class. temporary commission as Lieutenant from 10th October, 1914. Corporal A. Burns, R.A.M.C. Lieutenant Richard John Batty, k.a.MC, attached 1 th Driver .T. V. Gibbs, British Red Cross Society, No. 4 Am- Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, wounded in Flanders, bulance Convoy. was educated at Manchester, and took the B. Sc. at Victoria Private F Turner, No. 2 Canadian Field Ambulance. University in 1903, the M. B. and Oh B. in 1909, and the Medal of St. class. D. P. H. in 19>2 After qualifying he served as House George, fourth Surgeon to the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton, and as Assistant Private VV. Hanson, R.A.M C., No. 1 Field Ambulance. Medical Officer of the Children's and of the Consumption Private W. Malone, st. John Ambulance Association, No. 4, Hospital at Manchester. He then settled at Sutton, Surrey, Motor Ambulance Convoy. as Medical Officer to the Surrey Education Committee. Private T. Markes, R.A.M.C., 1st Cavalry, Field Ambulance. Private H. Stapleton, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), 3rd Field Ambu-

On 6th September was published a list of those lost, when Private P. M. Stephens, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), 86th Field Am- the transport Royal Edward was torpedoed and sunk, with bulance. the loss of about a thousand lives, in the Aegean Sea on 14th Private C. B Tomkins, No 3 Canadian Field Ambulance. August. Of thirty-two officers 011 board, thirteen were lost, Private H. Wilkinson, R.A.M.C., 18th Field Ambulance. including four medical officers, Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Private A. E. Wright, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), Slst Field Ambu- Danber, Major James Mowat, Captain C. B. Marshall, and lance. Lieutenant T Hayhurst, all of the R A. M. C. (T. F.). Notices of the two first have already been given. Captain Charles Bertram Marshall, r.a.m.c. (T. F.), On 6th September the War Office published a list of twelve was educated at Manchester, and took the M. B. and Ch. B appointments to the Distinguished Service Order, and thirty of Victoria University in 1909 the D. P. H. in 1911, and Military Crosses, bestowed upon officers for gallantly in the M. D. in 1913. After serving as Resident Medical Officer tlie field. Among them one medical officer, Captain K. W. of the Manchester Children's Hospital, and Resident Jones, R.A M C. (Special Reserve), gained the D. S. O., and Surgical Officer of the Ancoats Hospital, Manchester he one, temporary Lieutenant T. L. Ingram, R.A.M.C., the went into practice at Bramhall Park. Cheadle Hulme, Military Cross, for the following services :? Cheshire. He took a commission in the 3rd East Lancashire Captain Kingsmill Williams Jones, M.D., R.A.M.C. (Special East Kent Field Ambulance as Lieutenant on 5th September, 1914, Reserve), attached 1st Battalion, Regiment. For at and became Captain on 27th February, 1915 conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty Hooge. Lieutenant Thomas Hayhurst, r.a.m.c. (T. F.), took During the entire night of August 9 10th, 1915, and the the M. B. and Ch. B. at Edinburgh in 1911 After serving whole of the following day and night, lie was attending to and as junior and senior House Surgeon in the Victoria Hospital, evacuating wounded from the front trenches, time after Burnley, in 1911-12, he went into practice at Fulwood, time exposing himself to shell and rifle fire He was twice Preston. He joined the 1st East Lancashire Field Ambu- slightly wounded, but stuck to his work with unflagging It was to lance as Lieutenant on 5th September, 1914. energy. entirely owing Captain Jones that the crater was successfully evacuated of wounded. Temporary Lieutenant Thomas Lewis Ingram, R.A.M.C., The London Gazette, of 25th August, in a special supple- attached 1st Battalion, King's (Shropshire L. I.). ment, notified the bestowal of a number of decorations on For conspicuous devotion to duty and energy at Hooge. various officers. Among them was one D. S. O. conferred He was evacuating wounded from the front trenches almost on a medical officer, without cessation the entire nights of August 9th and 10th, " Captain Stanley Alwyn Smith, No. 3 Field Ambulance, 1915, and his indomitable energy and resource were the Canadian Medical means of saving the lives of many wounded officers " Army Corps. severely For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at and men. He has previously done consistently good work. Festubert on the of 20th May, 1915 " night Captain Smith, with a party of eight men, went out voluntarily to remove the wounded from an orchard whilst At the same time was announced the bestowal of the under heavy fire, and eventually succeeded in bringing all Distinguished Conduct Medal on 144 non-commissioned into safety. Four of the eight men of the rescue party officers and men, among whom were included the following were wounded, and two of these have since died." nine men of the medical services :? Sergeant J W. Breame, R.A.M.C. (T. F.), 1st East Anglian Field Ambulance. AT the same time was notified the grant of a large number Private H. T. Cameron, 3rd Canadian Field Ambulance. of Russian decorations by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Private J. Coinrie, New Zealand Field Ambulance. of Russia to British officers. Among those thus honoured Lance-Corporal J. C. Farnham, 3rd Australian Field was one medical officer, Lieutenant J. Downie, R.A.M.C. Ambulance. (T. F.) who received the order of St. Anne, 4th class. Private W. J. Henry, New Zealand Field Ambulance. At the same time various Russian decorations and medals Private E. P. Hitchcock, Australian Army Medical Corps. were conferred upon the following non-commissioned offi- Private J. V. F. Gregg-Maogregor, 1st Australian Field cers and men of the medical services :? Ambulance. A. A. Australian Medical Cross of the Order of St. George, third class. Private Morath, Army Corps. Sergeant-Major T. Crawley, A.S.C., No. 5 Motor Ambu- Private L. Crawford-Watson, New Zealand Army Medical lance Convoy, R. A. M. C. Corps, Nov., 1915.] CASUALTIES AND WAR NOTES. 43*

House and House at Westminster During the fourteen 11th to August 25th Surgeon, Physician Hospital, Hays, August and also served as a British Red Cross in the Balkan inclusive the number of casualties among officers Surgeon reported war in 1912-13 He received a commission as reached the of of which 845 occurred temporary very high figure 1.271, Lieutenant on 10th in the Dardanelles, 355 in Flanders, and the remainder in February,1915. Lieutenant Percival Nash. R.A.M.C., wounded in various other seats of war. are tabulated as follows :? Rydes They the Dardanelles, was educated at Queen's College, Cork, and at Edinburgh, where he took the Triple Qualification in 1902. He had been House Surgeon of Tynemouth Royal fcl 4) Infirmary, and Resident Medical Officer of Hove Dispensary, and before the war was House Surgeon to the Ear and Throat 2 *2 Hospital at Brighton. Ho held the rank of Captain in the Q ? g ? H R. A M. C. (T. F.), from 27th April, 1908, on the staff of the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, but took a temporary com- ...... 25 3 13 1 3 45 Naval, general mission as Lieutenant, R. A. M. C , from 19th Dardanelles. September, 1914, and was attached to the 1st Battalion of the Leicester- British .. ... 142 ... 386 78 ... 606 army... shire Regiment. Australians ...... 56 1 134 18 ... 209 Lieutenant Arthur John Ormsby Wigmore, r.a.m.c., British Indian ... 3 ... 15 18 officers, troops was educated at Bristol, where he took the M. B. and B. Ch. Indian officers ... 12 12 in as well as the M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P London in Flanders. 1911, 1910. After serving as House Surgeon to the East Sussex British ...... 102 4 211 11 4 331 army Hospital at Brighton, he went into practice at Bath, and Canadians ...... 2 ... 7 1 ... 10 took a temporary commission as Lieutenant in the British Indians ... 3 ... 5 ... 1 9 officers, troops II A. M. C on 8th December, l'*14, and was attached to the Indian officers ...... 1 ... 3 ... 1 5 5th Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment. East Africa. Lieutenant Michael Joseph Cronin, R.A.M.C., wounded British ...... 1 ... 1 in Flanders, was educated at the London Hospital, took the Indian ...... 1 ... l M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P. London in 1913, and got a tem- Cameroons ...... 2 2 as from 22nd porary commission Lieutenant August, 1914. Persian Gulf. Colonel Neville Manders, Army Medical Staff, was British ...... 3 ... 1 4 killer! in the Dardanelles on 8th or 9th August. He was the Indian ...... 5 ... 10 15 youngest son of the late Major Thomas Manders, 6th Dragoon Indian ...... frontier 1 1 Guards. (Carabineers.) and was born at Marlborough on 12th December. 1859, and educated at Marlborough. After quali- Total ... 343 8 800 111 9 1,271 fying as M. R. C. S- in 1883 and L. R. C. P. London in 1884, he entered the array as Surgeon on 2nd 1884. becom- The losses shewn as occurred chiefly in the August, Naval, general, on 2nd August, 1896. and Lieutenant- sinking of the India. The officer list, on transport Royal ing Surgeon-Major on 2nd 1904, and was promoted to full Edward are not included in the above list. Colonel August., Colonel on 21st December. 1913. He served in the Soudan in Among these 1,271 casualties are included fifteen medical 1885, the medal with a and the officers, three killed and twelve wounded. In the at Suakim. receiving Egyptian clasp, Khedive's bronze star ; and in Burma in 1885-89, when he was Dardanelles Colonel N. Manders, R.a.m.C. ; Captain A. wounded, and received the medal with two clasps. Kellas, R.A.M.c (T. F.), and Captain K. Levi. Australian severely On to Colonel he was appointed Deputy Director A. M. C., were killed, and eight officers wounded : Major D. promotion of Medical Services in and in January, 1915, Assistant S. Skelton, r.a.m.C. ; H. N L. W. Egypt, Major Butler, Major with the Australian and New Zealand and Lieut. J. C. of the Australian A. M. C. Director Army Corps Dunlop, Selmes, ; Peninsula. He is the first medical officer of temporary Lieutenants E. W. Adcock. A. J. O. Wigmore. in the Gallipoli the rank of full Colonel who has fallen in the war. and G. Fleming. R.A.M.C. ; and Lieutenant N. H H Haskins, R.A.M.C. In Flanders four Lieu- (T. F.) temporary Samuel Jabey Richards, of the Australian tenants of the R. A. M. C were wounded : M J. Major Cronin, has been reported as having died of C. M. Harris, C. R. Dudgeon, and R. P. Nash To these Army Medical Corps, the Dardanelles, 51. He was in command of must be added Lieutenant-Colonel J H. Panberand Major J wounds in aged Clearing Hospital and attained the rank of Mowat, both R.A.M.C (T list in the Royal Edward. We the 1st Australian F.). on 8r,h Uarcli. 1913. He must, have had an Australian should also mention the name of Lieutenant Colonel G. A Major as his name does not appear in the Medical Edsell, r.a.m C. (T. F.). who died in England of disease qualification, contracted in Flanders, and Major T C. Savage, New Zealand Directory. A. M. C. who died on service in Egvpt. Lieutenant-Colonel George Alfred Edsell. r.a.m.C., Captain Arthur Kellas, r.a.m.c. (T. F.), is also report- the 3rd Home Countries Field on (T. F.) commanding ed as having been killed in the Dardanelles 6th August, Ambulance, died at his residence, Cedar House, Surliton. 31. He was the youngest son of the late -fames F. of c he had aged pleurisy, ntracted at the front, whence Kellas. Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at Aberdeen, 16th 56. recently returned, invalided, on August. 1915, aged and was educated at Aberdeen University, where he took He was an'l at St.. educated at University College, London, the M. B. and Ch. B. in 1906, the D. P. H. in 1907. After Bartholomew's, and took the M. R C S the L R. C. P. he filled the post of Resident Physician and and L. the M. D. Durham, in qualifying London, the S. A-, in 1886. Surgeon of the Royal Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children, 1902, and the D. R. H of the London Colleges and of Gam- and before war was Senior Assistant Physician at the Royal bridge, in 1905 After qualifying, he acted a* Resident Obstret- Asylum, Aberdeen. After serving in the University Troop in the and ric Assistant, and as Clinical Assistant Throat. Eye. of Scottish Horse, he joined the 1st Highland Field Ambu- Skin u as Clinical Assistant at the Departments, at. B ts and lance, in which he became Captain on 2nd August, 1912, and H? was Clinical Royal Eye Hospital. Southwork recently was serving as second-in-command of this ambulance, with for and Assistant to the Samaritan Hospitals Women, the 29th Division, when he was killed. Honorary Surgeon to the Cripples' Home, Surliton ; was of the St. John's Examiner and Honorary Life Member Lieutenant C. M. Harris, r.a.m.c., wounded in the the of Ambulance Association, Fellow of Royal Institute Dardanelles, was attached to the 7th Battalion of the Royal Public a British Medical Associa- Health, and Member of the Scots Fusiliers. He took a temporary commission in March, tion was a Member of the ^urliton ; and also for some time 1915. Urban District Council. He attained the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel on 22nd October. 1911. His first commission was dated 1889. He was recently present in the battles at Ypres, Hill Major Dudley Sheridan Skelton, r.a.m.c., wounded 60, and St. Eloi. in the Dardanelles, was born on 8th August, 1875, educated Lieutenant-Colonel John Lees Hall, r.a.m C. (retired), at the London Hospital, and took the M. R. C. S. and died in London suddenly on 15th August. He was L. B. C. P London, in 1901, and the D. P. H. of the London educated at St. Thomas' and took the L. S. A. in 1877 the Colleges in 190S He acted as Demonstrator of Advanced L. R. G. P, Edinburgh in 1878! and the M. R. C. S, in 1879. Bacteriology at University College, and entered the Army on 6t.h 18^0. became He entered the army as Surgeon March, as Lieutenant, on 1st September, 1902, becoming Captain on Surgeon Major on 6?h March. 1892, and Li eutpnan'-Colonel 1st March, 1906, and Major on 1st March, 1914. Prior to on 6th March, 1900, retiring on 3-d August, 1?07. He served entering the Army he had served in the Sn th African as P. M O of a General in the South African War in 1901 02. War, as a Civil Surgeon, in the Transvaal and Orange River Hospital in the Transvaal, and received the Queen's Medal Colony, gaining the Queen's medal with two clasps. He out. for with three Clasps. When the war broke he rejoined also served in East Africa, in the Somaliland campaign of service from 12th August. 1914. He was a Knight, of Grace and 1008 -10. receiving the medal with a clasp. He is the "f St. John of Honorary Associate of the Order Jerusalem. author of By Motor through Ceglon (1905), and This Amazing Lieutenant Christopher Robson Dudgeon. r.a^M.C., India (19?6) at wounded in the Dardanelles, was educated Westminster Lieutenant Ernest William Adcock, r.a.m.c., wounded and L. R. Hospital, and took the M. R. C. S. C. P London, in the Dardanelles, was educated at Edinburgh, where he in 1912. He had filled the post of Assistant House Surgeon, 438 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Nov.. 1915.

for Women took the M. B. and Oh. li. in 1913, and received a temporary and Children. He was Surgeon to the Hospital for IIo commission as Lieutenant on 10th October, 1914, He was Women, Soho. entered the R. A. M. C. (T. F.), as attached to the 6th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. Lieutenant, in the Sussex Yeomanry on 7th January, 190.'?, Major Thomas Savage, of the New Zealand becoming Captain on 16th January, 1908. The last Army List Copeland shows him as Army Medical died at the New Zealand Military Major in the East Anglian Casualty Clearing Corps, from 25t,h Pont on 14tli August, 41. Station, head-quarters Tpswich, February, Hospital, Konbba, Egypt, aged 1915. lie was the second son of the late Warwick Savage, of J. Mowat. is shewn in the same as Burslem, and was educated at University College, London, Major place Major in the same unit from 29th 1915. There are three whei'e he had a distinguished career, gaining the Gold Medal April, medical men of this name in the Medical and Exhibition in Anatomy in 1893, and the Atkinson Morley Register. Scholorship in Surgery in 1901. He took the M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P. London in 1900, the M. B. London in 1900, His Majesty the King, accompanied by the Queen and the B. S. (Gold Medal) in 1901, and the F R. C. S. England Princess Mary, visited Brighton on Saturday, 21st August, in 1901. After qualifying he filled the posts of Assistant when ho inspected the Kitchener Hospital for Indian Sol- Demonstrator in Anatony at University College, Clinical diers. and afterwards held an investiture at the Pavilion Assistant for Outpatients at University College Hospital, and Hospital, when Jamadar Mir Dast, 58th Bangliair's Rifles, Clinical Assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital. was decorated with the V. C., and about a dozen other He then settled in practice at Auckland in New Zealand, Indian officers, non-commissioned officers, and sopoys, where he was Honorary Sui'geon of Auckland General received various other decorations. Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to North Auckland Hospital, and Examiner in Surgery at the University of New Zealand. On 16th August the Admiralty published a despatch from Hp accompanied the New Zealand contingent to Egypt. Vice-Admiral John M. deRobeck, dated 1st July, reporting On the 19th and 2ith August the names of three Australian the landing of the army on the Gallipoli peninsula, on medicai officers appeared in the casualty lists. Captain K. 25th-26th April, 1915, and mentioning the names of a number Levi, 1st Australian General Hospital, killed; Lieute of officers and men for special gallantry. The medical nantsJ. C Schnee, 2nd Australian i Field Ambulance; and officers mentioned were :? Major H. N. Butler, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, wound- Surgeon P. B. Kelly. R.N.. attached Royal Naval Air ed, all in the Dardanelles. A fourth, Major L. W. Dunlop, Service, who was awarded the D. S. O. 1st Australian Field Ambulance, was reported on the 25th Surgeon P. B. Kelly, R.N., attached to R. N. A. S., as wounded. was wounded in the foot on the morning of the 25th in Lieutenant Nicholas Hopkins Henry Haskins, r.a.M.C. River Clyde. Hp remained in River Clyde until the morning (T. F.), wounded in the Dardanelles, was educated of 27th, during which time he attended 750 wounded men. at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the M. B. and although in great pain and unable to walk during the last B. Ch. in 1914, and joined the 3rd East Lancashire Field twenty-four hours. Ambulance as Lieutenant on 9th August, 1914. Temporary Surgeon W. D. Galloway, H.M.S. Cornwalis. Lieutenant 'G. Fleming, R.A.M.C., attached to the 1th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, was returned on 20th On 16th August the Admiralty also published a list of August as wounded in the Dardanelles. There are two honours conferred upon officers and mon for services temporary Lieutenants of this name in the R. A. M C.; during the operations in the Dardanalles prior to April Geoffrey Montague Leason Fleming, M.B. and B.ch. 25th-26th, i.e., during the attack on the Straits by the Navy Dublin, 1913, commissioned from 16th August. 1914, who has alone. The medical officers thus honoured were :? been wounded once before ; and George William Fleming, D. S. O., Surgeon Martyn Henry Langford, R.N. of Omagh, who took the Scottish Triple Qualification in 1913, Commended for service in action, Fleet Surgeon Edward and got a commission on 7tli December, 1914. Henry Meadon, R.N., and Surgeon John Harding Baynes Martin, R.N.

' The services for which the D. S. O. was bestowed upon During the second week of August: was reported the three engineer officers and Surgeon Langford are thus loss of no less than three minor units of the Navy, all described :? within two days ; H. M. S. Ramsay, patrol vessel, sunk by Engineer-Commander Harry Lashmore, c. is..R.N. the German armed liner Meteor on 8th August, the Engineer-Lieutenant-Commander Arthur Ellis Lester, R.N. Meteor herself being blown up by her own crew to avoid Engineer-Lieutenant Rev Griffith Parry, R.N. capture a few hours later. H. M. S. India, armed liner, Surgeon Martyn Henry Langford. R.N. sunk by a submarine near i the ILofoden Islands on 9th During the time H.M.S. Inflexible was steaming to August, and H. M. S. Lynx, destroyer, mined and sunk in Tenedos, after having struck a mine, the engine-room being the on 9th August. In two cases the majority of the in semi-darkness and great heat, the ship in possible danger ships' complements were saved, including three medical of sinking on passage, a high standard of discipline was officers ; Temporary Surgeon F. W. Lawson and Surgeon called for in the Engineer Department, a call which was Probationer .1. T. Johnston, on the India, and Surgeon more than met. Engineer-Commander Harry Lashmore, Probationer R. P. Langford-Jones on the Lynx. The responsible for the discipline of the engine-room department, Ramsay does not appear to have carried any medical officer. was in the starboard engine-room throughout the passage, Unfortunately a large number of the officers and crew of the and set a fine example to his men. India were lost. Engineer-Lientenant-Commander Lester was in the port The transport Royal Edward, 11,117 tons, formerly one of engine-room carrying out the same duties as Engineer- the Canadian Grand Trunk Line, running from Avonmouth, Commander Lashmore did in the starboaid engine-room. Bristol, to Quebec, was torpedoed by a German sub- Engineer-Lieutenant Parry went twice through the thick marine in the Aegean Sea, on 14th August, and sank, with fumes to the refrigerator flat to see if the doors and valves great loss of life. She had on board 32 military officers, were closed ; he also closed the escape hatch from the sub- 1,350 troops and a ship's complement of 220 officers and merged flat, fumes and vapour coming up the trunk at the crew. The troops consisted of reinforcements for the 29th time. Division, at the Dardanelles, and details of the R. A. M C. Surgeon Langford brought up the wounded from the fore Great as is the loss of life on this occasion, about 1,000 lives, distributing station in the dark. Fumes permeated the place, this is the first instance of successful attack upon a trans- rendering five men unconscious. Surgeon Langford, though port during a war of now over a year's duration, in which partially overcome by the fumes, continued his work. an army larger than Britain had ever put in the field before, has been transported oversea. According to the published Senior Assistant Surgeon and Honorary Captain list, there appear to have been ten medical officers on board, Hugh Alfred Lafond is permitted to retire from the of whom two, Lieutenant-Colonel Danber and Major Mowat, service, subject to His Majesty's approval, with effect from are reported as musing, the other eight as saved. The names the 23rd May, 1915. are?54th Casualty Clearing Station, Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Danber, Major J. Mowat, Captain W. Redpath, Captain Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Buchanan, m.a., m.d., F. W. Lewis, Lieutenants R. C. S. Smith, W. J. Deighan, M.ch., m.a.o., I.M.S., Civil Surgeon, Saugor, is appointed to ?T. Green, and Lieutenant and Quartermaster J. W. Price. be Civil Surgeon, Pachmarlii. ls< East Lancashire Field']Ambulance,^{Lieutenants W. L. Cockroftand J. Cowan. Captain F. Bedell, i.s.m.d. (retired), assistant to the Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Danber was educated Civil Surgeon, from Naini Tal to Allahabad and also to hold at Middlesex Hospital, where he gained an open Entrance additional charge of the European Civil Hospital, Allahabad. Scholarship at King's College, London, and at Univer- sity College, London, and at Oxford. He qualified as Dr. H. A. Macleod, Civil Surgeon. Moi-adabad, privilege M. R. C. S. and L. R. C. P. London in 1890, also taking leave fo?* one month, with effect from the date of relief. the M. A. Oxon in 1892, the M. B. and B. Ch. in 1894, the M. R. C. P. London in 1895, and the F. R. C. S. I. in 1899. Civil Assistant Surgeon Bala Dat Pande, attached After qualifying he served as Surgeon to the Chelsea, to the Crostliwaite Hospital, Naini Tal, to hold charge of the Hospital for Women, and as Anaesthetist, Brompton and duties of assistant to the Civil Surgeon, Naini Tal, in addition Belgrave Dispensary, as Registrar of the Royal Hospital to his own duties. .1 Nov., 1915.] ri : SERVICE NOTES. 439

Mr. L.M. & Lieutenant-Colonel W. II. E. Woodrtoht, i.m.s.* Civil Jamshedji J. Modi. s.., t?p,s. (Eng.). to be Lec- turer in Grant to hold visiting medical charge of the Dentistry, Medical College, and Surgeon, IJareilly, Dental J. ea??officio Moradabad district, vice Br. Macleod granted leave. Surgeon, Hospital-,' rice Mr. (J. Efford, I,n.s. (Eng.) - , ... .. Civil Assistant Surgeon Dinrsii Krishna Muker.ti, The services of attached to the Sadar Moradabad, to hold civil Major \V. C. Ross, M.I!., T.M.s., are Dispensary, atthe of the placed medical of the in addition to his own duties, disposal Government of Bihar and Orissa for charge district, in the vice Dr. Macleod granted leave. employment Sanitary Department.

The undermentioned licensed medical practitioners are THE undermentioned to be temporary to His Lieutenant, appointed to be temporary Civil Assistant Surgeons in Assam I M. S., subject Majesty's approval, with effect from 1915 :? with effect from the dates noted against their names :? the i9th February. Tottakkat Krishna Menon, M.B. 1. Prafulla Ranjan Gupta, M R. ... 16th April, 1915. 2. Pulin Behari Datta. L.M.S. ... 7th June, 1915. 3. Nagenrlra Nath Hay, L.M.S. 9tli June, 1915. With reference to Government Notification No. 338, dated ... 1915. 4. Sarat, Chandra Das Gupta, M.R- 3rd July. the 13th January. 1915, Ilis Excellency the Governor of ... ??? 6th 1915. is 5. Prandhan Ghosh, M.R- Jidy, Bombay in Council pleased to make the following appoint,- 6. Nakshatra Bhusan Sen Gupta, m.r. ... 10th July, 1915. nending further orders Reverend J. 0. Young. M.P.. to act as Medical Officer, General Hospital, Aden. Lieutenant-Colonel A. Coleman, i.m s., made over European Caotain R B. S. Sewell, i.M.s , to continue to as charge of the duties of of the District Jail act Port Superintendent Health Officer, Aden, in addition to his duties. at Rawalpindi to Lieutenant-Colonel P St. C. More, I.M.3., Military on the forenoon of the 9th August, 1915. His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council i? nl eased to appoint Lieutenant T. S. Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. M. Green, t.m.s., Professor Sastri, M.E., I.M.S., to act ao Pivil Sunreon. in addition to his of Medical Calcutta, and Obstetric Karachi, Military duties, Midwifery, College, vice J. C. S. f.r.c.s. and Eden is allowed Major Oxley, (E.), i.m.s., pending Physician Surgeon, Hospital, privilege further orders. leave for one month and twenty nine days, under Article 260 of the Civil Service Regulations, with effect, from the 4th 1915. W. L. I.M.S., September, Capt. Harnett, F.R.C.S.. Retention on Active List after Retirement has become Due. to H E. the Governor of is for Surgeon Bengal, acting is the text of the Lieutenant-Colonel Green. The following letter of the Government of India dated Army Department, April 8th, 1915, conveying the decision that the period for which an officer of the The services of G. aro Indian Captain Holroyd, I.M.S., placed Medical Service is retained on the active in at the Government list, consequence permanently disposal of the of Bombay, of the war, after his retirement for becomes due, will be employment in the Jail Department His services will permitted to count for pension remain temporarily at the disposal of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief in Tndia. No. H.-409S. Government of India. Army Department. Lieutenant-Colonel H. Benett. m.r., r.sc. c.m., Simla, April 8th, 1915. (Edin.), F.RC.s (E.). I.M.S., was granted privilege leave of absence from the 21st June to the 18th 1915 July. (both days To the Director-General, Indian Medical Service. inclusive). e;,_T nm directed to the acknowledge receipt of your i H "NtV QO 357-A dated Assistant Surgeon P. K. l.m. Oth, 1915, Dadachan.ti, officers of the Indian Medical inquiring of the Civil Ahmedabad, with attached vteThe^ Service, who would charge Surgeoncy, have been to retire under the in addition to his from the 21st June to the compelled operation of duties, own, rules but who have been retained on the existing 18th 1915 active list in conse- July, (both days inclusive). will quence of the war, be permitted to reckon for enhanced rates of pension the service rendered by them after their The services of Civil Assistant Surgeon Shankar Keshav recrement Phadke, M.B.. R.S., are placed at the disposal of the Govern- ouhnari^^becom^hat t^e perio

Lteutenant-Colonel C. R. ttatttoextra of Pearce, j.m.s.. Director. Se3V1CI am^toadd pensions ?100 .each per Burma Pasteur is to hold additional annum granted under Institute, appointed Army Regulations India, Volume I, of the duties of General o!rrnnh 734 should be allotted in the charge Pathologist, Rangoon ordinary way to but should be Hospital, with effect from the 14tli June, 1915. Kted officers, payment held in abeyance till O ?? retire.?I am, Sir, your most they actually obedient servant, Captain T. F Owens, i.m.s., Chemical Examiner and (Signed)v ? B. HolloWAY, Bacteriologist to the Government of Burma, is to Brigadier-General, appointed Secretary to the Government of hold additional charge of the duties of Police Surgeon, India. effect Rangoon General Hospital, with from the 14th June, Reversion to 1915. Military Duty. The is the This department Notification No. 227, dated the 28th July, following text of Army Department letter, dated T?lv 3rd 1915, that it has 1915, is hereby cancelled. intimating been decided that officers of' the Indian Medical Service reverting to from permanent Civil in Military His the Governor of in Council is ^ntv employment, consequence of Excellency Bombay war whether on active pleased to Reverend A. MacRae, M.R.. to act as they proceed service or remain in appoint Tndii are entitled to not less than Civil Surgeon, Aden, vice Captain J. B. Hanafin, F.R.C.S. pay that of an officer of' their standing in permanent medical of (E.), I.M.S., pending further orders. charge a regiment No. H.-600G. UNDER the provisions of Articles 260 and 233 of the Civil Government of India- Service Regulations and of paragraph 435 of the Array Regu- Army Department. tions, Volume I, leave for three months com- India, privilege Simla, July 3rd, 1915. bined with leave out of India on medical certificate for three is Senior Assistant and months, granted to Miltiary Surgeon To the Director, Medical Services in India. Honorary Lieutenant A. E. Hamlin, with effect from the Sir?I am directed to say that the date on which he may avail himself of the privilege leave. Government of India have decided that officers of the Indian from Medical Service His Excellency the Governor of Bombay in Council is reverting permanent Civil employment in of the war, whether on consequence pleased to make the following appointments for a term of they proceed active service or remain on in India, are ono year with effect from the 1st October, 1915:? Military duty entitled under 153-11, Army Regulations, India, Volume paragraph Dr. Ardeshir m.d. to be Honorary I, to pay not less Navroji Cooper, (Bom.), than that of officers of their in Assistant J. J. vice Mr. S. K. standing permanent medical Physician, Hospital, Engineer, charge of a regiment.?I am, L.M. & s. Sir, your most obedient servant, ' Mr. Dinsha D. H. Baria, L.M. & s., f.k.c.s. (Eng. and : : Edin.), L.R.O.P. (Lond.), to be Honorary Surgeon, J. J. Hos- (Signed) B. Holloway, vice Mr. A. K. L.M. & S., F.R.C.S. to Brigadier-General,the pial, Dalai, (Eng.) Secretary Government of India. ? 440 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Nov., 1915.

Indian Order of Merit. Off relief by Mr. deAttoides, Civil Assistant Surgeon R. S. S. L.RC.P. & s. l.m. (Dub.) is appointed The Governor-General in Council is to sanction Aiyer, (Edin.). pleased to officiate as Civil Surgeon, Lashio, in of the the place Military following admissions to Military Division of the Assistant E. A. Davis, transferred. Indian Order of Merit Surgeon For admission to the 2nd Class of the Order, On relief Mr. R. S. S. 1st Class Sub-Assistant by Aiyer, Military Assistant Sur- Surgeon") geon E. A. I)avies is to officiate as Civil Munasami Ramasami T j- o u j- appointed Surgeon, I Subordinate in of Civil Assistant J. J. 3rd Class Sub-Assistant ! Myitkyina, place Surgeon G. Surgeon Medical L.M. & s. Keshav Waman Depart- DaCosta, (Mad.). Khuperkar \ ment 3rd Class Sub-Assistant Surgeon | (Bombay)- Shaikh Muhammad Dadasahib J Dr. E. E. Davis, who lias been employed temporarily in For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at charge of the Railway Hospital, Moradabad, to hold medical Barjisiyah on the 14th April, 1915 They showed exceptional charge of the Railway Administration from the 7th September, zeal and coolness in attending the wounded throughout the 1915, vice Dr. H. A. Macleod, Civil Surgeon, granted leave. action under heavy shell and rifle fire. The services of Lieutenant-Colonel R. J. Marks, I.M.S., In the Legislative Council, the Hon'ble Maharaja Ranajit Civil Surgeon, Gorakhpur, are temporarily placed at the Sinha asked disposal of the Government of India, Army Department, with effect from the date he of his duties. "Will Government be pleased to state how many of the relinquishes charge vacancies caused by the deputation to the Military Depart- ment of officers of the Indian Medical Service holding Lieutenant-Colonel H S. YVoon, i.m.s., and Major A. as Civil Surgeons have been filled the appointments " by MacGilchrist, i.m.s., from Bengal, have been warned to hold of Civil Assistant Surgeons ? promotion themselves ready to go to Military duty. The Hon'ble Sir Reginald Craddock replied :? " Since the outbreak of hostilities, 84 Civil Assistant The undermentioned 3rd Class Assistant Surgeons, having Surgeons have been temporarily promoted to act as Civil completed five years' service in that class, and passed the Surgeons in vacancies eaused by the reversion of Indian required departmental examination, to be 2nd Class Assistant Medical Service officers to Military duty. This total does Surgeons, with effect from the 16th September, 1915 not include those Civil Assistant who have been Surgeons Frederick George Steinhoff. appointed to act as Civil Surgeons in place of Military " Walter Roland Browne. Assistant reverted. Percy Surgeons similarly Eric Douglas White. Joseph Hugh Charles Peters. The undermentioned 4th Class Assistant Surgeons, having completed seven service in that class, to be 3rd Class years' Major Edgar John Morgan, m.b., i.m.s., has been Assistant with effect from the dates noted Surgeons, against the Honourable the Secretary of State for their names :? permitted by Right India to retire from the service, subject to His Majesty's Henry Doyle 1 approval; with effect from the 1st October, 1915. Major George Herbert Mason Morgan entered the service on 2nd January, 1895, and we John Auty Rogers >lst September, 1915. understood he had beon promoted to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Herbert Clarence Pownes I He went on sick leave in October, 1913. John Emmanuel Reid Heppolette J Anthony Leo Gonsalves, 8th September, 1915.

Lieutenant-Colonel William H. B. Robinson, i.m.s., to be temporary Colonel whilst Deputy Director of Medical Services in Egypt. Dated 16th January, 1915.

In consequence of mobilization, the services of Major H. H. Broome, I.M.S., Professor of Operative Su gery. Medical College, Lahore, are replaced temporarily at the disposal of the Government of India, Home Department, with effect from the afternoon of the 19tli August, 1915.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 45 of the Indian Councils Act, 1861 (24 and 25 Vict.. Cap. 67). and section 4 (2) of the Indian Councils Act, 1892 (55 and 56 Vict., Cap. 14) and with the previous sanction of His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General, the Lieutenant-Governor H. M.D is pleased to nominate Colonel Hendley, , I.MS., Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Punjab, to be a Member of the Council of the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab for the purpose of making Laws and Regulations.

The services of the undermentioned Military Assistant Surgeons are placed at the disposal of the Military Depart- ment with effect from the dates noted against their names 1. Military Assistant Surgeon H. B. Blaker, Officiating Civil Surgeon, Cachar. 6th August, 1915 (forenoon). 2. Military Assistant Surgeon A. W. Hazle, Officiating Civil Surgeon, Lushai Hills, 5th August, 1915 (afternoon). 3. Military Assistant Surgeon E. G. Crunden, Travelling Inspector of Emigrants, Assam, 2nd August, 1915 (forenoon).

Civil Assistant Surgeon H. Lyngdoh, in medical clfarge of the Darrang Military Police Battalion at Manipur and of the Manipur State, is appointed temporarily to officiate as Civil Surgeon. Cachar.

Civil Assistant Suroeon Chandra Kumar Datta, Teacher, Berry-White Medical School, Dibrngarh, is appoint ed temporarily to officiate as Civil Surgeon, Lushai Hills.

On return from leave, Mr. F X. deAttaides, LM- & s. (Bom.), is appointed to be Civil Surgeon, Yamethin, in place of Civil Assistant Surgeon R. S. S. Aiyer, L.RC.P. & s. Edin.), L M. (Dub.), transferred.