1915, He Was Appointed

84 OBITUARY OF THE WAR. CHARLES KENNETH McKERROW, M.A., M.B., B.C. CAMB., CAPTAIN, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. NORMAN ERNEST JASPER HARDING, M.B., Captain C. K. McKerrow, who died of wounds received CH. B. EDIN., the same day, on Dec. 20th last, at the age of 33, was elder - MAJOR, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. son of the late Dr. George McKerrow, of Ayr. He was Major N. E. J. Harding, who died of cholera at Colaba educated at Cargilfield and Charterhouse Schools, gaining Military Hospital on August 10th last while in command from the latter the Science Scholarship of his year for of a stationary hospital at Bombay, was 41 years of Cambridge, and later an open scholarship at Clare College. age. He studied at Edinburgh and at University College, He took a first class in science, graduated iILB. and B.C. in Liverpool, graduating in 1908, obtaining in the medicine at Edinburgh same year the diploma University in 1900, and of the Conjoint Board. entering the Royal Army After holding resident Medical Corps a year posts at St. George’s later, after taking a Hospital and being extern diploma in Publicc to the 1st Frauenklinik Health. He obtained in Vienna, he joined his his captaincy in 1906, father in practice in Ayr and his majority in for some years. On 1914. He was seriously obtaining a commission i wounded in the Boer in the R. A. M. C. in June, War, and for his ser- 1915, he was appointed vices at that time was regimental medical decorated with thee officer to a battalion Queen’s medal with two of Northumberland clasps and the King’s Fusiliers, going with medal. He went to them to France, where- France with No. 12 he remained until his General Hospital on death. the outbreak of war, Captain McKerrow was and served there for 15 not one-sided in his months, before taking to India the unit which he was com- development. At school and later he had some reputation as a manding at the time of his death. Previously to the outbreak middle-weight boxer, and he also played Association football of war he had served in Burma and on the West Coast of for his college. His superior officer writes of him : "A few Africa. He contributed an article on the Value of Koch’s days before his death Captain McKerrow read an excellent Treatment of Malaria, to the Jo2irnal of the Royal Army paper on Trench Fever before our Divisional Medical Society, Medical Corps, and other articles of a historical and giving proof of his careful clinical work even in the trenches. professional character. I formed a very high opinion of him both as a gallant soldier In 1908 Major Harding married Dorothy, oldest daughter and a skilful surgeon. He was absolutely fearless in the of the late Ernest Wetton, of Maidstone, and of Kobe, performance of his duty." In McKerrow married Japan. - January, 1915, Captain Jean, only daughter of the late James Craik, and leaves a widow and ROGER FORREST HUGHES, B.A., M.B., CH,M. SYDNEY, one son. CAPTAIN, AUSTRALIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. i. CLIFFORD CRAWSHAW .1l.R.C.S. Captain R. F. Hughes, who was killed on active service on PICKLES, ENG., D. P. H. LEEDS, Dec. llth last, was 26 years of age and the elder son of Sir Thomas Hughes, who was for many years Lord Mayor of LATE CAPTAIN, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS (T.F.). Sydney. He was educated at St. Ignatius College, Sydney, Mr. C. C. Pickles, who died on Dec. 22nd last, after being entering the Sydney University, where he first graduated in invalided out of the Royal Army Medical Corps, was 30 years arts, and obtained his medical qualifications at the end of age, and the third son of Dr. J. J. Pickles, of Camp-road, ot ivio. tie tnen nlled Leeds, of whose six the position of resident sons five were members medical officer at of the medical pro- St. Vincent’s Hospital fession and one a until March, 1916, when student before the war. he enlisted in the Educated at the Leeds Australian Army Medical Grammar School, Corps. After serving Clifford Pickles entered for six months at a the School of Medicine base military hospital at the University of in Sydney he was Leeds, obtaining in detailed for service as 1909 the Conjoint Board regimental medical qualification, and two officer to an Australian years later the Public battalion in France, Health diploma of his arriving there early in University. After December. Ten days holding resident later while dressing a appointments at Leeds wounded man in his and acting as assistant advanced station he in general practice at was severely wounded Harrogate and Ossett and died the same e he was appointed day. Captain Hughes was well known in athletic medical inspector of school children under the North Riding circles in Sydney. He represented his school at cricket Education Committee and was stationed at Malton, where and football and his university at hockey. Just prior he was also in charge of the local company of the to leaving Australia he married Eileen, youngest daughter 5th Yorkshire Territorials. At the outbreak of hostilities of M. E. Maher, of Collaroy Station, Merriwa, N.S.W., he was medical officer at Gateforth Sanatorium, near Selby, with whom and his parents much sympathy will be and on mobilisation served with the 5th Yorkshire Regiment at felt for his untimely death at the outset of a promising home for some months, after which he was transferred to the career. medicalI service as a captain. He went out to France in 85 April, 1915, in charge of a clearing station, came home The original idea in the minds of the organisers of the three months later with severe shell shock, and was invalided ambulance unit, Dr. Brock tells us, was to provide as an out of the service in October, 1915. In spite of his poor adjunct to it a small evacuation hospital of 25 beds with health he then took over the practice at Earby of his brother, 25 stretchers for cases requiring to remain in the hospital for the late Surgeon P. D. Pickles, who died of gas poisoning a few hours only. The accommodation, however, has been after going down with H.M.S. Russell in.the Mediterranean gradually so greatly extended that 97 patients can now be last year. Unfortunately, his health did not improve, and provided with beds, and there is room in an emergency for an attack of broncho-pneumonia following influenza proved more. -The unit’s funds do not at present allow of filling fatal. more than about 65 of these, and this may be con- Captain C. C. Pickles’s service to his country was under- sidered for the moment the normal number. The ground taken with no thought of himself. His transference from floor of the villa was appropriated, as far as possible, for combatant to medical service was made at a time when hospital purposes. The outbreak of Asiatic cholera made it doctors were urgently required for the Army, and the strain necessary to prepare an isolation ward. A part of the of his work contributed to the illness from which he never granary was partitioned off into two rooms, one for suspected quite recovered. His record and that of his family are a cases and the other for cases such as typhus or cholera. notable achievement. Captain Pickles married in June of After the great battle in the first week of November, 1915, a last year Dorothy B. E. Wilkinson, only daughter of Charles great rush of wounded came from the Gorizia section. All Wilkinson, of Boston Spa and Leeds. the beds (5t) in the villa were quickly filled and the remainder of the patients were put on mattresses or on straw in the granary in four long lines. As many as 150 THE FIRST BRITISH RED CROSS UNIT IN ITALY. patients were at one time in the hospital. The remaining of the has since been off and divided We have received from Dr. G. S. chief medical part granary partitioned Brock, into two, so as to form two large wards. officer to the unit, a of the first work report year’s hospital An out-patient department has also become a necessity. drawn for the Joint War Committee, from which we take up Many soldiers sent from the front into reserve are the :- encamped following in this neighbourhood, often unaccompanied by a medical Villa Trento, the headquarters of the ambulance unit, is officer. In case of illness they usually come for advice on the high road beyond the bridge over the river Natisone to this hospital. The number of these soon necessitated at Manzanol, and within a dozen miles of the fighting on the an out-patient department. A waiting-room and consulting- Isonzo front, on Monte Sabotino, at Oslavia, and on Monte room have been partitioned off in the granary, and this work Podgora. The villa is a large building of seventeenth is undertaken by an Italian colleague, Lieutenant De Lisi, century design, belonging to the Conte di Trento, with a who has been attached to the unit from the first and has central portion of three storeys and wings of two storeys, rendered invaluable assistance. flanked on either side by tall pine trees. Behind the latter, The pharmacy of the hospital is under the care of Lieu- on one hand, is a line of offices occupied by a detachment of tenant Balotta, another Italian officer detailed by the Carabinieri, while on the other is a long building of which Direzione di Sanita to assist the unit.

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