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Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow Шаблон:Post-nominals (30 June 1876 – 20 December 1957) was Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps (1941–46) and an Honorary Surgeon to King George V.[1][2][3]

Life

Harold Percy Waller Barrow was born in Madras Presidency, India on 30 June 1876.[4][5] He was the son of an Army Surgeon, Henry John Waller Barrow, and Florence Ellie Macdonald.[3] Barrow was educated at Bedford Modern School[2] and Guy's Hospital, London.[4]

Barrow joined the Royal Army Medical Corps from Guy's in 1898,[1] and was commissioned a lieutenant on 28 January 1899.[6] The following year, he left Southampton on the SS Umbria in March 1900 to serve in the Second Boer War in South Africa, where he was attached to No. 11 General Hospital.[7] He later served in World War I, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919.[1]

In 1919 he was appointed Director of Hygiene and Pathology in India and later Director of Hygiene at the War Office between 1924 and 1930.[1] In 1926 he was appointed an honorary surgeon to King George V.[1] After his retirement he was sent to Antigua as health officer and he was a member of the Federal Executive Council of the Leeward Islands from 1930 until 1933. From 1941 to 1946 he served as Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps and from 1943 to 1952 he was a commissioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.[1]

Barrow died in Hampshire, England on 20 December 1957.[8]

References

  1. 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 Obituary, Maj.Gen.H.P.W. Barrow, The Times, 23 December 1957, p.8
  2. 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite book
  3. 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  4. 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  5. 1911 England Census
  6. Hart′s Army list, 1901
  7. Шаблон:Cite newspaper The Times
  8. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

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