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aTmqe ^otcs. Tiie number of casualties among officers reported in the fourteen days, 1st to 14th July inclusive, was 636, of which 320 occurred in the Dardanelles, 305 in Flanders, and eleven in other seats of war, as follows :? ?S % 1 ?2 T3 3 ? ? rf v o 'I.2 ?" -2 * 3 ? S ? ? Dardanelles. Naval officers ?? ??? 4 1 16 21 ??? ??? ... British officers 6'- ... _ 113 38 213 ... British officers, Indian troops 6 ... 16 22 ... ??? officers 4 ... Indian 8 ... ... 12 ... ??? H ... Australians 21 1 ... J-3 ... ... Zealanders 2 ... New 16 1 ... 19 Flanders. British officers ... ... 80 2 ISO 13 4 279 ... British officers, Indian troops 4 ... 2 v fj Indian officers ... 1 10 11 Canadians . ... ... 2 ... 5 ... 2 9 Persian Gulf. British ... ... officers 6 6 Indian ... officers 1 1 Aden ... ... ... 3 3 Cameroons ... .. 1 1 Total ... 175 5 397 - 53 (i 636 356 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Sept., 1915. Four of the cases shown as wounded in Flanders were Liverpool, before the war broke out, when he took a suffering from gas poisoning. The chief feature of the week's temporary commission as Lieutenant in the It. A. M. C. from casualties was the great loss incurred by three Scottish 17th September 1914. territorial battalions in the Dardanelles. The 4th Royal Lieutenant-Colonel William Bridgett Pritchard, Scots lost 21 ten seven and four officers, killed, wounded, r.a.m.c. (T. P.), died of wounds in the Dardanelles, was missing ; while the 7th and 8tli Cameronians, or Scottish Ritles, educated at Owen's College, Manchester, and took the lost 37, three killed, fifteen wounded, and nineteen missing. M. R. C. S. and L. li. C. P. London in 1890. After serving In such cases most of these returned as have been missing as assistant medical officer and house surgeon at the killed. Brigadier-General W- Scott Moncrieff, of ths Worchester ltoyal Infirmary, he went into practice at Lothian was also the killed. The Brigade, among Royal Manchester, where he was medical officer and public vaccinator Scots are chiefly recruited in and about Edinburgh, of No. 4 district, Charlton Union, and honorary anaesthetist Cameronians from Glasgow. to the Cancer Pavilion and to the Victoria Dental Hospital. two weeks Among the casualties of the thirteen Medical His commission as Lieutenant-Colonel in the second East Officers were included, one of whom was serving as a com- Lancashire Field Ambulance Manchester), is F. (head-quarters batant. In the Dardanelles, Surgeon H Itees, r.n., and dated 18th November 1911. Lieut-Colonel W. B. Pritchard, RA.MC. (T. F ), died of Cavtain William John ra.m.c. while Captain E. D. Gairdner, r.a.m.c. (T. F.), Harrison, (T. P.), wounds; was educated at Durham and St. Thomas' Lieutenant C. F. Bentz, R A.M.C. (T. F.), and Lieut. H. J. M. wounded, hospital, took the M. B. and B. S Durham in 1899, and the M. R. C. S. Cursetjee, IMS. were wounded. In Flanders, Captain and L. It. C. P. London in 1902, and after as resident .T. F. R.A M c.. was killed in action, Lieut. W. R. serving Gwynne. medical officer of the London went R.A.M.C., died; while six officers were wounded, Temperance Hospital, Pryn, at where he was assistant It. XV. Branthwaite. and H. J. into practice Newcastle, surgeon Surgeon-Captain Captains to the Newcastle and Nose He Gorrie and W. J Harrison, all R. A. M. C. (T. F), Throat, Ear, hospital. joined the 6tli battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers as Lieutenant H. Pierce and C. P- V. McCormack, temporary Lieutenant and Medical Officer on 29th R. A. M. C. and Lieutenant D. Blair, l.d.s., of the 4tii April 1910, becoming on 29th October 1913. battalion, Black Watch. Captain Lieutenant Heerajee Jehangir Manockjee Curset Surgeon Frederick Harold Uees, r.n., report- recently I.M.S., wounded in the was born on 14th ed as wounded in the Dardanelles died of his wounds on jee, Dardanelles, educated at the Grant Medical at 21st June He was the elder son of Dr. Alfred Rees. of August 1885, College at and at the London and took Cardiff, was educated in the Cardiff Intermediate Bombay, Cambridge, Hospital, School, the JVI. it. C. S. and L. It. C. P. London in 1911. After and at, University College, London, and took the M. B acting as resident medical officer of the for and B. S. London in 1912. He was appointed a temporary Belgrave Hospital Children, London, he entered the I. M. S. on 27th surgeon in the on 9tli February 1915, and sailed for January Navy when was attached to the 14th a Malta in At the time of his death he was attached 1912, and, wounded, Sikhs, April. which has lost in the to the Drake battalion. regiment very heavily Dardanelles. Captain John Fitzgerald G w^nne, r.a.m.c., killed Captain Hfnry James Gorrie, ra m.c. (T. F.), was in Glanders on 9th J uly 1915, was born in August 1889, the educated at Dundee and in the School of the Royal College tldest son of the late Dr. Charles Gwynne, of Sheffield, of Surgeons. Edinburgh. He took the triple qualification and educated at Sheffield University, where he took the M. B. of the Scottish College, and also the L. D. S of the and B. Ch. in 1911. After filling the posts of resident Edinburgh College in 1906, and was in practice at Dundee. medical officer of Sheffield Royal Infirmary, and assistant He joihed the 3rd Highland Field Ambulance, becoming medical officer of the Southwark Union Infirmary at East Captain on lOtlx March 1913. Dulwich, he entered the K. A. M. C. as Lieutenant on 30th Captain Eric Dalrymple Gairdner, r-a.m.o. (T. F.), January 1914, and was promoted to Captain on 30th March wounded in the Dardanelles, is a son of the late Professor Sir 1915, when all the Lieutenants of the It. A. M. C. got a step William Gairdner, of Glasgow. He was educated at of promotion for war service. Edinburgh. Glasgow, and Dundee, and took the M. B. and Lieutenant Frederick Colin Bentz, r.a.m.c. (T. F.), B. Ch. at Glasgow in 1902. After qualifying, he filled the wounded in the Dardanelles, was educated at Owen's College, posts of resident physician and resident surgeon at Manchester, and took the M. B. and B. Cli. of the Victoria Glasgow Royal Infirmary and resident surgeon of Glasgow University in 1913. On 15th August 1914 he was appointed maternity hospital, and then went into practice at Ayr, Lieutenant in the second East Lancashire Field Ambulance. where he is surgeon to Ayr County hospital. He joined the The Commanding Officer of this Ambulance, Lieutenant- 5th battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, as medical officer and Colonel \V. B. Pritchard, at the same time received the Lieutenant, on 15th July 1906. wounds of which he died. Lieutenant Charles Patrick Valentine McCormack, Surgeon-Captain Robert Walsh Branthwaite, r.a.m.c.,wounded in Flanders, took the L. R. C. P. I. and R.A.M.C. (T. F.), of the 15th batt London Regiment slion, (the L. R. C. S. I. in 1912, and a temporary commission in Civil Service wounded in Flanders, was educated at got RiHes), the R. A. M. C on 20th 1915. Cross and took the L. S. A in the January Charing hospital, 1880, The following awards of the D. S. O., Military Cross, and M. R. C S in 1881, the L R. C P. London in 1881, the Distinguished Conduct Medal were announced on 3rd July :? M. D. of Brussels and the D. P. H. of the London Colleges D. in 1896. After acting as house surgeon of Macclesfield S. O.?Major E. J. O'Neill, New Zealand Medical Infirmary, assistant medical officer of Parkside Asylum, and Corps. resident medical superintendent of the Dalrymple house D. S. O.? Captain A. G. Butler, Australian Army Medical for inebriates, he entered the service of the Home Office, Corps. where he was under the Inebriate also lately Inspector Acts, Lieutenant J. of Prisons under these and medical Military Cross.?Temporary M. Gillespie, Inspector Acts, adviser r.a.m.c. to the reformatory and industrial school department. He entered the medical department of the Territorial forces as Military Cross.?Temporary Lieutenant J. H. MacNichol, R.A.M.C. Lieutenant on 2nd April 1904. Why this particular battalion like the Guards, keeps up the compound title of Surgeon- Military Cross.?Assistant Surgeon E. B. Messinier, Captain for its medical officer, is not evident, but it is so I.S.M.D. given in the Army List. Distinguished Conduct Medal. Lieutenant Daniel of the 4th Black Blair, battalion, Staff Watch, wounded in Flanders on 29th is a member of Sergeant H. Jackson, Australian Army Medical June, Corps. the medical profession. He was educated at and Glasgow Private L. W. Philadelphia, took the L D. S. of the Burnett, Australian Army Medical Corps. Glasgow college J. \V. in 190), and the of Doctor of Dental at Corporal Jones, r.a.m.c. (T. F.) degree Surgery Private A. Pennsylvania University in 1902, and is in at Cook, r.a.m.c. (T. F.) practice G. Hanick. His commission as Lieutenant is dated 21th Lance-Corporal Steedman, New Zealand Medical Corps. October 1914. Private T. Stockdill, Stretcher-bearer, Canterbury battalion, New Zealand. Lieutenant William Reginald Pryn, r.a.m.c., reported as having died in France in the casualty list of 7th edncaterl took the M. R. C. S. and The is the Prisoners r n a.t Guy's, following official list of British officers, * in as who , London 1914, and after house of War, have been The wounded officers of serving repatriated.