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QUB Services Club Centenary Roll of Honour World War 1 Medics N - S

Included in this section of the roll are the names and record summaries of John Alexander Sinton VC and William Brooke Purdon who attained the rank of Major-General and was later appointed as the ﬁrst Agent in London of the Northern Ireland Government. An Irish rugby international he was President of London Irish RFC. Academics like Sir David Semple and Sir Thomas Sinclair brought their considerable professional skills to army medical services. Sir Thomas who conducted the autopsy on the famous German air-ace ‘The Red Baron’, was the ﬁrst President of QUB Services Club

NAPIER, William

RASC. Captain. 1914-16. Mentioned in despatches. RAMC 1918-19. WW2 RAMC. Major. Campbell College. M.B., B.Ch. 1918. FRCSI, 1921. Played for Ulster XV v. Leinster, 1914. Leinster and Munster, 1921. Born 22/02/1894, Son of Alexander and Hester Napier, Ballybranagh House, Downpatrick. Husband to Page 1 Katherine Margaret Napier. Died 03/01/1945. Ballee Church of Ireland Churchyard. O

O’FLAHERTY, Patrick Edward

War physician Mater Inﬁrmium, Belfast. St. Malachy’s College. QUB 1891, MB 1900. MO to Constabulary and Prisons. Born 1871. Son of Daniel O’ Flaherty, Duncairn Gds, Belfast. Died 14/10/1935, Carlisle Terrace.

O’NEILL, Henry Theodore

RAMC. Captain. Campbell College. QUB BSc 1913, MB 1918. In France from 11/09/1918. 229 F Ambl and 15 Suffolk Yeomanry. Born 188. Son of Harry O/ Neill MD, College Sq East, Belfast

O’NEILL, John Stevenson

IMS. Major. MC. MiD twice. QUB MB 1904, BS, MD 1925, FRCS Edin 1924. Commissioned IMS 01/02/1905. MC 26/06/1916. Served Ops in Arbor Country 1911- 12. Served in Europe from 26/09/1914. Born 1877 P

PAISLEY, William

SAMC. Major. Dungannon Royal School. QCB MB 1900, BS BCh BAO. Captain RAMC. Served in German SW Africa and E Africa. Born 1875. Son of James Paisley, Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone. Died c1965.

PARR, John Frederick Fitzgerald

RAMC. Major. RBAI. QCB. Commissioned in 1900 in Tower Hamlets Vol Regt (later 4th Btn London Regiment) and reached rank of Major. Served with RAMC from Sept 1914, I/c hospital Malta and subsequently in various TA Depots in London. Born 1852, Castleblaney, Son of Rev John Parr, Corlea Presbyterian Church, Co Monaghan. Husband to Martha Parr. Died 10/11/1924, aged 72

Page 2 PATTERSON, William Samuel

RAMC. Captain. Bangor Inter School. QCB MD 1886. Born 1864, Mountpottinger. Son of Hugh and Essy Patterson, Belmont, Belfast. Died 22/06/1928, Balmoral Cemetery

PATTON, Graham

RAMC. Captain. Campbell College. RCSI LRCPI 1908, QUB DPH 1921. Served with MEF from 10/04/1015. Born 1879. Son of Rev. Alex Paton, DD, Downshire Rd, Bangor. Died Feb 1945

PEARSON, Charles Broderick

RAMC. Captain. RUI QUB MD 1878. In Gallipoli from 19/10/1915. 40 F Ambulance. Born c1884. Son of Charles, Professor of Surgery, MD, and Christine Pearson

PEDLOW, Robert

RNVR. Surgeon Sub Lieutenant. RBAI. Served as Surgeon Probationer. QUB MB 1923, BCh DPH 1927. Born 1898, Co. Armagh. Son of Thomas (GP) and Maud Pedlow, Market St., Lurgan. First Lurgan - PCI RH

+PHILLIPS, Thomas McCann

RAMC. Captain. MiD. Died 04/11/1914 from wounds received in battle. Age 24. Although only sent to the front on 3rd October 1914, Captain Phillips had seen some very heavy fighting since he went out, being continuously in the firing line. He had been mentioned in despatches. Letters from Major E. C. Hayes, officer commanding 21st Field Ambulance, and Lieut.Colonel J. G. M'Naught, officer in charge of No. 4 Clearing Hospital, gave particulars. He was attached to Major Hayes' ambulance, and had a dressing station established in a cottage near to the firing line. This cottage came under shell fire on the morning of the 3rd November, and Captain Phillips and Lieutenant Richardson who were in occupation had to leave it, but no sooner had they done so than they were both struck by a shell, which killed Richardson and mortally wounded Capt Phillips. In addition the same shell wounded about fifteen other men of the R.A.M.C. Captain Phillips was then brought to an hospital in Ypres, and seemed well and cheery considering the nature of his wounds but the next day, as the hospital in Ypres was being shelled, he had to be removed with others to a clearing hospital at Popperinghe, about seven miles away, where he was placed under the care of Colonel M'Naught but at this time he was unconscious Page 3 and only survived a very short time. His remains were buried in the local cemetery at Popperinghe, and the spot is marked by a wooden cross. Major Hayes, in writing of his death, states that it was a great loss in the unit on account of his reliability and efficiency. Captain Phillips was a son of the late Rev. J. G. and Mrs. Anne Phillips, of Damascus, in which city he was born. The family later lived in Ahoghill. He received his early education in Trent College, Nottingham, and later in Campbell College, where he played in the famous School Cup team of 1897-98. He graduated from Queen's College, Belfast in 1905, and shortly after received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, taking first place in the examination. Captain Phillips was home on leave from India, and on the outbreak of war was posted to Victoria Barracks, Belfast.Poperinge Communal Cemetery.

PICKEN, Samuel Ernest

RAMC. Captain. MiD. QUB, MB. Lieutenant RAMC, Nov 1914. Captain, Nov 1915. MiD 29/05/1917. Born 1890. Son of Anna Craig Picken, Antrim Rd., Duncairn, Belfast

PIRRIE, Robert Reid

26th Btn, Northumberland Fusiliers (Tyneside Irish). Captain. Also served with RAMC. QUB, TCD and Durham Univ. Born 1894 Belfast. Husband to Grace. Died 23/03/1936

POSTON, HENRY

RN. Surgeon Sub Lieutenant. RBAI. Served as Surgeon Probationer. Served in HMS Linnet, a destroyer in North Sea 1915. Studied medicine at Dublin and Belfast. Graduated QUB, MB 1919. Moved subsequently to Manchester, taking up orthopaedic surgery, becoming a staff member at Ancoats Hospital. He was a consulting surgeon at Altrincham General Hospital, Oldham Inﬁrmary and Wood's Hospital, Glossop. He had previously been a consulting orthopaedic surgeon at Grangethorpe Hospital, Manchester. He was a member of Manchester Medical Society.

POWELL, Samuel Arthur

IDF. Lt Colonel. OBE. QCC, QCB and TCD. MB RUI 1887. BCh MAO MD 1924. Served 1914 - 18 in command of Byculla Ofﬁcers’ Hospital. Post-war Consulting physician for Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Pensions. Born 1864, Bandon,

Page 4 Co Cork. Son of Rev John Powell (Methodist), Kinnaird Terr., Belfast. Died 28/08/1926, Sutton

PURDON, William Brooke

RAMC. Major-General. CB, OBE, DSO, MC. MiD. President of the QUB Services Club in 1948. Born in Belfast 28/11/1881. Educated at RBAI, MCB and Queen’s College graduating in medicine in 1906. In 1913 he completed a Doctorate of Public Health, and it was through his specialisation in hygiene that he made his name after the war. He had two distinctive careers. The first as a distinguished officer in the RAMC and the second as a representative of the Government of Northern Ireland in London. In 1907 he joined the RAMC. Lieutenant RAMC Jan 1907, Colonel Aug 1916, Major General March 1938. Served in India 1908 - 13, BEF France and Belgium 1914 - 19. He was awarded a Military Cross 18/02/1915. and a DSO 01/01/1917. He was also mentioned in despatches three times. From 1930 to 1934 he was Assistant Director of the Hygiene at the War Office and from 1934 to 1935 he was Deputy Director Medical Services British Troops in Egypt. He became the Professor of Hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College, and later the Commandant and Director of Studies. During the Second World War he was also the Medical Superintendent of Queen Mary’s Hospital at Roehampton. He was Honorary Surgeon to the King from 1938 to 1941, and from 1940-41 the Deputy Director of Medical Services, Western Command.

After retiring from the Army in 1946 he accepted the post of Northern Ireland Government Agent in London. Purdon first played rugby union as a schoolboy, before playing for the Queen’s College team. It was while representing Queen's that he was selected for the Ireland national team, playing all three games in the 1906 Home Nations Championship. His first match, played away to England, saw him score a try in a 16-6 victory. Although part of the losing Ireland team against Scotland in February, his final game home to Wales saw a win which gave Ireland the Championship title. The Wales game, which Ireland won 11-6, saw the Irish team finish with just 13 men on the pitch, after Ernie Cadell broke his leg and Purdon was forced to withdraw with torn knee ligaments. As well as Queen's, Purdon also played for North of Ireland and Collegians and was selected for the Army rugby team. He was the President of London Irish from 1949 until his death in 1950. Born 1864, Bandon, Co Cork.

Page 5 PURSE, George Raphael Buick

RAMC. Lieutenant. MC. Coleraine AI. QUB MB 1914, BCh BAO MCh 1920, FRCS Edin 1923. House Surgeon RVH. RAMC 1915 - 19, attached 8th RIR, RIF, 110 F Amb and 48 CCS. President of the Ulster Medical Society. Born 1891, Ballyclare. Son of James Purse. Died 29/06/1950

SCOTT, George

RAMC. Lt Colonel. CMG. MC. QCB 1889. MB 1896. MC 01/01/1917. CMG 04/06/1917. Born 1871, Newry. Son of Walter and Alice Scott, Hill St., Newry. Died 10/02/1942

SEAVER, Charles Douglas Kingsley

RAMC. Brigadier. Campbell College. QUB 1910. Lieutenant RAMC, Jan 1911. Major, Jan 1923. Brigadier, April 1941. Served India 1913 - 14. France and Belgium from 26/09/1914. Invalided. 1915 -16 attached 1 Manchester Regiment. Egypt, Mar - April 1916, India 1916 - 19. Served until 01/08/1946. Born 1887. Son of Rev RW Seaver, St John’s Rectory, Malone, Belfast

SEMPLE, Sir David

War member of Standing Sanitary Board, Egypt Expeditionary Force. Knighted 1911. MiD 1916. Foyle College. QUB MD 1881. BCh DPH, Camb. Assistant Professor of Pathology, Army Medical School, Netley. Gold Medal for Public Service, India 1903. Director Central Research Institute India 1905 - 13. Served 1914 - 18 war. Son of William and Elizabeth Semple, Castlederg. Husband to Ethel. Died 07/01/1937, St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London

SHAW, William Samuel Jagoe

IMS. Lt Colonel. Midleton College. QCB 1889, MB RUI 1897. BCh BAO MD QUB 1914. Superintendent Asylum. MO Central prison Hospital. Lieutenant IMS Jan 1903. Major July 1914. Lt Colonel 1922. Son of Mr Shaw, Midleton, Co. Cork. Died 29/09/1952, Moundsmere, Durrant Rd, Parkstone, Dorset Page 6 SHIELDS, Albert Frederick Leopold

RAMC. Lieutenant. Attached to Irish Guards. QUB MB 1914. Served 1914 0 18. In France from 12/08/1914. No 2 Staty Hospital. Born 1892 Belfast. Died 26/11/1952, Weybridge, Surrey

SHIELDS, William John

Dental Surgeon. QUB LDS, FCS Edin. Served 1914 - 18. Born 1889. Son of William John (Dentist) and Esther Shiels, Crumlin Rd, Belfast. Died 1933, South Yorskshire. St Helena’s churchyard, Chesterﬁeld

SIMPSON, Charles John

RAMC. Lieutenant. Campbell College. QCB BA 1909, MB 1910, BCh BAO. Lieutenant RAMC SR 1910 - 13. Served 1914 - 18. Aus AMC 1915 - 19, Egypt, Palestine, Syria. Son of John and Agnes Simpson, Clermont, Holywood, Co. Down

SINCLAIR, Francis Howard

MO on Transport and HM Troopships Mauretania and Caronia. RBAI. QCB, LRCP 1878, MD MS RUI 1885. Born 1860. Son of Thomas Sinclair JP, Hopeﬁeld, Belfast. Husband to Maud. Died 04/01/1951, Torquay, Devon. RCSI RH

+SINCLAIR, George Stanley

Royal Irish Rifles. Second Lieutenant. Died 28/05/1917. Age 20. Educated at Castle Park, Dublin, Inst and QUB, where he was a medical student 1914 - 15, and a member of the Training Corps. He applied for a commission with the 5th Royal Irish Rifles on 20/04/1915, joining the 1st Battalion on 05/07/1916. On 18/02/1917, George led a patrol of 20 men into the village of Moislains, north of Peronne, capturing it in the process. He had previously been wounded during an attack on 23/01/1916. He died of wounds while in camp in Nurlu, north east of Peronne, while in the course of instructing battalion bombers. 3 other ranks were wounded in the incident. Witnesses reported that Rfn Abraham had drawn his arm back to throw a bomb, when his arm caught on Rfn Neill's sleeve. The lever flew off the bomb, but Abraham still had the bomb in his hand and it exploded. Shortly afterwards there was a second explosion. George was found stooped against the traverse, badly wounded in the face and chest. From the position in which George was lying "it seemed as if he had made an attempt to pick up something". A court of enquiry decided that George was not to blame for the accident; hoever the brigade commander wrote that instructions for Bombing Training had not been followed. The battalion adjutant, Lt Page 7 Whitfield, considered that George has died "saving another man's life really" and that "he was a charming fellow and never cared a damn. I was awfully sorry to have lost him”. The June 1917 edition of RBAI School News reported that "no boy was a greater favourite with his schoolfellows, for he was modest, manly and public-spirited, with a really fine sense of humour, and a vein of romance in his nature. The chaplain who conducted the short and touching service at his grave in the little parish churchyard in France was also an old Instonian, Rev J Hamilton of Helen's Bay."" George was born on 24/04/1897, the son of the late Samuel and Edith Mary Sinclair (nee Darbishire) of "Inglewood", Adelaide Park, Belfast. Samuel Sinclair has been a governor of Inst. George was originally buried in Nurlu British Cemetery but was re-buried in Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension , Somme, France. RBAI WM

SINCLAIR, Sir Thomas

First President of QUB Services Club 1918, 1919, 1920

Colonel. AMS. CB 1917; MRCS 1882; FRCS1886; LM MCh MD RUI 1881; MP. Thomas Sinclair was educated privately and intended to go into business. In 1877 he entered Queen's College, then a constituent college of the Royal University of Ireland, in which he graduated with first-class honours in 1881, winning the Malcolm exhibition in 1880 and a gold medal in 1881. He then worked at the London Hospital, in Vienna, and in Berlin, acted for a time as demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, Belfast, and took the Membership of the RCS in 1882 and the Fellowship in 1886. His first hospital appointment in Belfast was on the surgical staff of the Ulster Hospital for Children and Women, where he was ultimately consulting surgeon; in 1885 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Royal (afterwards Royal Victoria) Hospital, becoming surgeon in 1898 and consulting surgeon in 1923. He was also consulting surgeon to the Forster Green Hospital, the Co Antrim Infirmary, and the Lisburn and Coleraine Cottage Hospitals. In 1886, at the age of 29; he succeeded Alexander Gordon as professor of surgery at Queen's College. He held the chair for thirty-seven years, retiring at the age limit in 1923, and is said to have taught more than 2,000 students.

During the war he was consulting surgeon to the 4th Army, under Rawlinson in France and later under Allenby in Egypt, with the rank of colonel, AMS, having been commissioned on 15 November 1915. He received the CB in 1917. While in France he examined the body of Richtofen, the German air "ace", who was brought down behind the British lines and was thought by some to have been shot from the ground

Page 8 as he fell. Sinclair established that he had been shot in combat in the air by Captain A R Brown, an Australian pilot.

After the war Sinclair returned to Belfast and occupied himself particularly with the affairs of the Queen's University, as Queen's College had become in 1908. He was registrar from 1919 to 1931, an ex officio member of the University Senate from 1919 as registrar and from 1931 as one of the pro-chancellors, his colleague in this office being the Rt Hon James Andrews, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. He was a generous contributor to the University, as well as to the hospitals with which he was connected, and in 1926 founded the Sinclair medal, to be competed for each year by the members of the surgical class in the University. He represented the University on the General Medical Council from 1919 till 1927, when he became a Crown nominee upon it, and was also a member of the Dental Board. He was for many years a senator of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and in 1923 he was elected unopposed as MP for the University in the Imperial Parliament, in succession to Sir William Whitla, MD. He held the seat for seventeen years, retiring only two months before his death, and was returned unopposed at four general elections. He died at Belfast after several months' illness on 25/11/1940. Born in Belfast on 17/12/1857, the third child and second son of Samuel Sinclair, flax-merchant, and Isabella McMorran, his wife. He was unmarried. A great teacher and a wise administrator, he held a unique place in the professional and academic life of Belfast for more than a quarter of a century. A portrait, presented in his honour in 1931, hangs in the Great Hall of the University.

SINTON, John Alexander

President of QUB Services Club 1947

Brigadier. VC. OBE. FRS. DL. John Alexander Sinton was the first Queen’s College /University graduate, and the first Northern Irish medic, to be awarded the Victoria Cross. He later served as Pro-Chancellor of the University and Honorary Colonel of the Officers’ Training Corps.

John Alexander Sinton was born on 02/12/1884 in Victoria, British Columbia, the third of the seven children of Walter Lyon Sinton and Isabella Mary Sinton. The Sintons were a Quaker family with extensive interests in the linen trade in the north of Ireland. In 1890 the family returned to Ireland and lived at Wheatﬁeld House in Portadown moving later to the Belfast area.

Page 9 Educated at the Nicholson Memorial School (run by the Quaker community) in Lisburn and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) from 1899. After RBAI, John Sinton attended Queen’s College, Belfast where he was one of the most distinguished students in the Belfast Medical School. He graduated with ﬁrst class honours in 1908, gaining a Bachelor of Medicine (1st Class), Bachelor of Obstetrics (1st Class) and Bachelor of Surgery (2nd Class). In 1910 he was awarded the Diploma in Public Health (with a £10 prize) by Cambridge University and was the Riddel Demonstrator of Bacteriology at Queen’s under Professor Symmers. As a precursor to joining the Indian Medical Service, he studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, where he took ﬁrst place in the examinations.

In July 1911 he received a commission as a Lieutenant (Medical Ofﬁcer) with the Indian Medical Service and was attached to the 31st (Duke of Connaught’s Own) Lancers, serving on the North West Frontier as a Captain. When the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force commenced operations in the Persian Gulf, JA Sinton requested a transfer to an active service unit and was posted to the 37th (Prince of Wales’ Own) Dogras.

As Regimental Medical Officer, Sinton spent more time treating his men for illness than for battle wounds during the early stages of the campaign, but he displayed the highest degree of bravery in several actions. The one for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross occurred on 21st January 1916 at the Orah Ruins in Mesopotamia, where the Turks were inflicting heavy casualties on the British troops under siege at Kut-el-Amara. Under near suicidal conditions, Captain Sinton tended the wounded men under heavy fire and without regard for his own safety. He was hit by rifle-fire five times, being wounded in both arms and in the side. However, he refused to leave the firing line and continued treating the wounded until darkness finally ended the shooting. His "conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty" earned him the Victoria Cross. Fittingly, Sinton’s VC is on display, alongside a painting of the action for which it was awarded, at the Regimental Museum of the Royal Army Medical Corps in Aldershot.

In May 1917 he became a Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services with the Indian Medical Service. Before the war ended, Sinton was mentioned in despatches four times and received the Order of St. George (4th Class), a gallantry medal awarded by Imperial Russia.

In 1917 and 1918, Sinton served with the East African Force (Tanganyika) and commanded a Cavalry Field Ambulance as part of the East Persian Cordon Field Page 10 Force. Between August 1918 and April 1919, he was the Senior Medical Ofﬁcer to the Turkistan Military Mission.

In 1919 he was awarded the MD (honoris causa) by Queen’s University, Belfast in recognition of “his early academic distinctions and his valour in the ﬁeld.” The university awarded him a Doctorate in Sciences for his work on phlebotomus (a mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand ﬂy) in 1927.

In late 1919 Sinton returned to India and served in the Mahsud and Waziristan campaigns in Afghanistan, being mentioned in despatches on two occasions. In 1921 he transferred to the civilian branch of the Indian Medical Service and was taken on to the staff of the Medical Research Department at the Pasteur Institute (Kasauli, near Simna). In the same year be became an Ofﬁcer of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for “... valuable services rendered in the ﬁeld with the Waziristan Force.” He was also the recipient of the Indian General Service ribbon, with three clasps.

In January 1923,he was promoted to Major and, on September 19, he married Eadith Seymour Steuart-Martin.. Their daughter, Eleanor Isabel Mary Sinton, was born at Kasauli on 09/12/1924. He was the ﬁrst Director of the Malaria Survey of India (now the Malaria Institute of India), an institute that was, under Sinton’s direction, to become one of the chief malaria research centres in the world. He spent the next ﬁfteen years researching the treatment of malaria before retiring from the Indian Medical Service in 1938. After retiring, Sinton became Manson Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a researcher with the Horton Malaria Laboratory.

At the start of World War Two, Sinton joined the Home Guard as a Private, but was soon rescued by the War Ofﬁce and spent the remainder of the war as a peripatetic advisor on malaria control. As a Brigadier, he served in India, East Africa, the Middle East and, in 1944, he oversaw the treatment of an outbreak of malaria in southern Italy.

On 21st March 1946, John Alexander Sinton was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work as a malariologist and record of his qualiﬁcation to become a member ends :

Page 11 "It is doubtful if any other author during the last thirty years ... has contributed more largely and importntly to scientiﬁc knowledge of malaria or has worked more originally and assiduously to advance such knowledge."

John Alexander Sinton was the ﬁrst (and probably only) man entitled to include the letters “VC” and “FRS” after his name.

With the war over he retired, again, and settled in Cookstown, where he undertook occasional civilian posts such as High Sheriff (1953) and Deputy Lieutenant (1954) for County Tyrone and Justice of the Peace. Sinton continued to be involved with Queen’s University where he held a Pro-Chancellor position and was He was also President of the Cookstown Royal British Legion.

Brigadier Sinton died at his home, Slaghtfreedan Lodge, at the age of 72, on 25th March 1956 and he was buried with full military honours at Claggan Presbyterian Cemetery in Cookstown. Such was the esteem with which he was held, a tradition started whereby veterans in the Cookstown Royal British Legion gathered at his graveside on the eve of Remembrance Sunday to pay homage. A small housing block for ex-service couples, built by the Royal British Legion Housing Association, was named in his honour, as was one of the Halls of Residence at Queen's University Belfast.In October 2009, the British Army opened the Sinton Medical and Dental Centre in Lisburn as a replacement the centre destroyed by an IRA bomb in October 1996.

John Alexander Sinton wrote over 200 scientiﬁc papers (comprising twelve volumes now located in the Thomson Room in the QUB Medical Library) and received many awards and honours, including:

Arnott Memorial Medal (Irish Medical School & Graduates Association, 1917); Chalmers Medal (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1929);

Bissett-Hawkins medalist (Royal College of Physicians, 1944);

Robert Campbell Memorial Prize (Ulster Medical Society, 1946);

Mary Kingsley Medal (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1949);

Anti-Gambia Memorial Medalist (Awarded by Egypt in 1950 in recognition of his efforts during a malaria epidemic);

Page 12 Manson Medal (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1956).

Sinton’s name appears on the Fitzroy Avenue Presbyterian Church War Memorial plaque and in the PCI Roll of Honour.

SMILEY, George Kennedy

OC Military Hospital, Derby. MO i/c Temple House VAD Hospital, Derby. OBE, 1919. Londonderry AI. Foyle College. QCB 1889. MB RUI 1897. Served as surgeon Londonderry Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. Born 1870, Londonderry. Son of Joseph Sinclair. Husband to Constance. Died 02/08/1925, Alderley Edge. Buried Londonderry

+SMYTH, Gordon Dill Long

Royal Irish Rifles, 3th Battalion. Second Lieutenant. Died 16/08/1917. Age 21. Gordon Smyth had attended Royal School Dungannon, Foyle College and RBAI before enrolling to study medicine at QUB 1914 - 15. It was at Queen’s that he renewed his friendship with Eric Erickson Craig, a fellow medical student who had also attended Foyle College. Gordon Smyth had joined the Training Corps in November 1914 and Eric Craig joined the unit in November 1915. Eric Craig received his commission in December 1915, being initially attached to the 20th (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles before leaving for France in July 1916. Gordon Smyth received his commission in January 1916 and was transferred from the 20th Battalion to the 13th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles on 20th June 1916. Gordon and Eric both paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country. In a letter dated 05/09/1916, Gordon reports that, whilst at Lewis Gun School, “I ran into M’Clinton and Stewart of North.”. The former was Arthur Norman McClinton of Windsor Park, who also belonged to Fitzroy Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the latter was Albert Lewis Stewart – both McClinton and Stewart had also been educated at RBAI and had represented Ireland in Rugby Union. Gordon Smyth survived his friend by less than a year. He was killed in action during the Battle of Langemarck (3rd Ypres). Son of F D Smyth, 111 University Street, Belfast. Tyne Cot Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. Foyle College WM, RBAI WM

SMYTH, J

President of Queens Services Club 1937 - 38. BSc, DPH

Page 13 SMYTH, John

IMS. Colonel. Monaghan Diocesan School. QCB MD 1897. Surgeon IMS 1881. Colonel 1911. Served Sudan, Actions at Hashan and Torfek. Wounded at seige of Tami. Served 1914 - 18. Born 1857, Killabrick, Co.Monaghan. Son of Robert David Smyth, Killabrick Cottage. Died 02/07/1927, Clifton, Bristol

SMYTH, John Trevor

Royal Irish Riﬂes. Lieutenant. Mentioned in despatches. Campbell College. M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., 1924. Irish Rugby International XV, 1920. RAMC, Lieut., 1925; Major, 1934. Lt. Col., 1945. Retired 1952. Son of Walter Smyth, Fannmore, Holywood, Co. Down.

SPROULE, Charles Lyle

RAMC. Captain. Campbell College. QUB 1904. LRCPI. LM 1913. Served 1914 - 18. Born 1897. Son of Robert and Mary Sproule, Killyleagh. RCSI RH

STEEN, Hugh Barkley

IMS. Lt Colonel. Coleraine AI. QCB MB BCh BAO 1895. BS 1900. MD 1906. Commissioned IMS Jan 1901. Captain 1905. Major 1913. Lt Colonel 1921. Served 1914 - 18. Professor of Midwifery Medical College and Obstetrics Physician and Surgeon Medical College Hospital, Calcutta. Born 1875, Balleney, Co Londonderry. Son of Richard Steen, Balleney House

STEEN, Robert

STEVENSON, Howard

Royal Victoria Hospital 1914 - 18. Methodist College Belfast. QCB BA 1897, RCSI MB 1900. MP for QUB 1938 - 1949. Born 1876. Son of Alexander and Mary Stevenson, Railway St., Lisburn. Husband to Charlotte. Died 16/03/1950 of injuries received in a trafﬁc accident

Page 14 STEVENSON, Walter Bernard

RAMC. Colonel. QUB MB, BAO, DPH 1913. House surgeon RVH, Belfast. RAMC, Lieutenant Jan 1912. Captain, March 1915. Major, May 1918. Lt Colonel, March 1940. Served India 1914 - 21. North West Frontier March - April 1918. Hong Kong. Specialist in hygene 1922

STEWART, John Kilpatrick

RAMC. Captain. Ballymena College. QUB MB 1915, BCh, BAO. Served 1914 - 18. In France from 11/09/1915. MO to DLI. Severely wounded. Born 1892 Ballymena. Son of John Smith Stewart, Grange. Died 15/04/1933 suddenly at Randalstown

STEWART, Robert William Glennan

RN. Surgeon Rear Admiral. OBE. Monaghan Collegiate School. QCB, MB BAO. MRCP. Surgeon RN Feb 1900. Surg Cdr Sept 1916. OBE 1919. Surgeon Rear Admiral 17/09/1929. Professor of Medicine, RN Hospital Haslar. His son Rev Robert James Stewart was chaplain in HMS Hood and went down with the ship 24/05/1941. Born 1874. Son od Robert Stewart, LRCP.LRCS, Glaslough, Co. Monaghan

STEWART, William

MO Denton Red Cross Hospital 1914 - 18. Lieutenant and MO, 4th Manchester Vol Btn. Ballynahinch Inter School. QCB. MD 1887, MCh. Lecturer to St John’s Amb Assoc from 1903. Knight of Grand Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1944. Born 1865, Dromoara. Son of Hugh Stewart. Died 04/09/1944

+STORY, Louis Percival St John

RNVR. Surgeon Probationer. HMS Opal. Died 12/01/1918. Aged 22. RBAI. Faculty of Medicine QUB, 1913 - 1915. Both the Opal, and the HMS Narborough ran aground during a snowstorm, on South Ronaldsay, Orkney. They were on a night patrol to hunt German warships suspected to be laying mines on the Scottish coast. By 5.30pm the weather had deteriorated to such an extreme degree that the destroyers were in danger of swamping and foundering and visibility was near zero. The Opal and Narborough were sent back to Scapa Flow. For the next four hours Opal regularly sent reports indicating her course and intention to return, but at 9.27pm, a garbled message stating "have run aground" was received, followed by silence. The weather was so atrocious that no vessels could be despatched until the Page 15 following morning, and it was two days before the Opal was found, battered, broken and empty on the Clett of Crura. The single survivor, who had been on board the Narborough, reported that the ships had suddenly crashed headlong into the rocks, probably due to a navigation error by the Opal's captain. Both wrecks were abandoned and broken up by the sea over the next few weeks taking the bodies of both crews, bar the single survivor, with them. Son of the Reverend Lawrence Parsons Story and Katharine Evelyn Story, Ulsterville Avenue, Belfast. Faculty of Medicine QUB, 1913 - 1915. Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Panel 31. RBAI WM. QUB WM. Christ Church, Durham St., Belfast WM

SUFFERN, Alexander Canning

RAMC. Lt Colonel. OBE. Laurelvale School. QUB MD 1879. OC 1st Birmingham War Hospital. Born 1857. Son of Hugh Suffern, Ballyclare, Co Antrim

SYMMERS, William St Clair

War Pathologist RVH, Belfast 1914 - 18. Columbia Academy, S Carolina. QCB/ Aberdeen MD 1887. Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at QUB. Born 1863. Son of George and Jessie Symmers. Brother of Douglas Symmers, Professor of Pathology at Cornell, New York. Husband to Marion Latimer MacAlpine nee Macredie, formerley of Sydney, New South Wales. Died 04/10/1937, Belfast. Buried Bangor

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