- Michelle Norris
Private Michelle Suzanne Claire Norris MC, RAMC, also known as "Chuck" Norris is a British soldier and medic noted for heroism in the 2003 Iraq conflict. On June 11 2006, whilst serving as a Medical Orderly attached to the 1st Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, she jumped out of her Warrior Patrol vehicle and climbed up the side of it to rescue the vehicle commander, Colour Sergeant Ian Page, who had been shot in the mouth, … - Arthur Martin-Leake
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake VC and Bar (4 April 1874 - June 22 1953) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Martin-Leake was the first of only three men to be awarded the VC twice (the others are N.G. Chavasse and C.H. Upham). He was 27 years old, and a surgeon captain in the South African Constabulary then, Royal Army Medical Corps, … - Charles Upham
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and Bar (September 21 1908 – November 22 1994) was a New Zealand soldier who earned the Victoria Cross twice during the Second World War: in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942. He is only the third person to receive the VC twice, the only person to receive two VCs during the Second World War and the only combat soldier to receive the award twice (the other dual recipients, … - Noel Godfrey Chavasse
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC and bar MC (November 9, 1884 - August 4 1917) was a British medic and soldier who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice. He was born in Oxford and educated at Magdalen College School in Cowley Place, where a blue plaque was dedicated to him in 2005. Chavasse was the son of Francis James Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool and founder of St. Peter's College, Oxford. - Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter. - Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. - William Boyd
William Boyd CC (June 21, 1885 - March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks. Born in Portsoy, Scotland, he received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908. During World War I, he was with the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Flanders. In 1916 he wrote the book, "With a Field Ambulance at Ypres". - John Grant
John Grant (born Bolton, Lancashire, 1933) is a British author who writes under the pen name "Jonathan Gash". He is the author of the Lovejoy series of novels. Grant is a doctor by training and worked as a general practitioner and pathologist. He served in the British Army and attained the rank of Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was head of bacteriology at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the University of London between 1971 and 1988. - Warwick Deeping
George Warwick Deeping was a prolific English novelist and short story writer. His most famous novel is "Sorrell and Son" (1925). Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, into a family of doctors, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge to study medicine and science, and then to Middlesex Hospital to finish his medical training. During the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Deeping later gave up his job as a doctor to become a full-time writer. - Alfred Keogh
Sir Alfred Henry Keogh (1857-1936) (GCB, GCVO, CH, LLD) was a medical doctor in the British Army. Born in Dublin on 3 July 1857, the son of Henry Keogh, barrister and magistrate of Roscommon. He was educated at Queen's College, Galway, and Guy's Hospital, London. Received his M.D. from the Queen's University of Ireland in 1878. He went on to excel academically at the Army Medical College, Netley, gaining the Herbert prize and the Martin memorial medal. - John Leslie Green
John Leslie Green VC (4 December 1888 - 1 July 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 27 years old, and a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, attached to 1/5th Battalion, … - John Hargrave
John Gordon Hargrave (1894-1982), nicknamed the 'White Fox', was one of the leading figures in the Social Credit movement in British politics. Born into an itinerant Quaker family, Hargrave joined the Boy Scouts in 1908. He soon became a devotee of the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton, and one of the leading Scout authorities on Woodcraft. When World War I broke out, Hargrave joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and saw action at the Battle of Gallipoli. - Geoffrey Keen
Geoffrey Keen was a British actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films. - Robert Colquhoun
Robert Colquhoun (1914 - 1962) was a Scottish, painter, printmaker and theatre set designer. Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong friendship and collaboration, the pair becoming known as "the two Roberts". He joined MacBryde on a travelling scholarship to France and Italy from 1937 to 1939, … - William Boog Leishman
Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman (November 6, 1865 - June 2, 1926) was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer. He was Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1923 to 1926. He was born in Glasgow and attended Westminster School and the University of Glasgow and entered the Royal Army Medical Corps. He served in India, where he studied enteric fever and kala azar. - William Barnsley Allen
William Barnsley Allen (VC, DSO, MC & Bar) (8 June 1892 - 27 August 1933) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Allen attended Worksop College, a pubic school in North Nottinghamshire. He was 24 years old, and a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, attached to 246th (W. Riding) Bde., … - Bertie Mee
Bertie Mee OBE (25 December 1918 - October 22, 2001) was an English football player and manager, most famous for managing Arsenal to their first Double win in 1971. He was the younger brother of fellow footballer Georgie Mee. Born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, Mee played for Derby County and Mansfield Town as a young man, but his playing career was cut short by injury. Mee joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and trained as a physiotherapist, and spent six years, … - Frankie Vaughan
Frankie Vaughan, CBE (3 February, 1928-17 May, 1999) was a singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom. He was born Frank Abelson to a Jewish family in Liverpool, England. The name Vaughan came from a grandmother whose first grandson he was, who used to call Frank "my number one" grandson, in whose Russian accent "one" sounded like "Vaughan." In his early life, … - Sid Watkins
Sidney Watkins, MD, FRCS, OBE, (b. 1932) commonly known as Professor Sid, is a world-renowned neurosurgeon who served twenty-six years as the FIA Formula One Safety Delegate and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder in case of a crash. Born in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Watkins attended the University of Liverpool and graduated in 1952; he worked for the Royal Army Medical Corps in West Africa for four years, … - Charles Singer
Charles Joseph Singer (2 November 1876 - 10 June 1960) was a British historian of science and medicine. - Major Greenwood
Major Greenwood (August 9, 1880 - October 5, 1949) was an English epidemiologist and statistician. Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there. He was educated on the classical side at Merchant Taylors' School and went on to study medicine at University College London and the London Hospital. - Sidney de Haan
Sidney De Haan, OBE was the founder of SAGA. Born in Mile End, London E3 in 1919 he left school at the age of 14 and began training as a chef, working at the Waldorf Hotel for a while. In 1939 he was called up to the Royal Army Medical Corps and was captured at Dunkirk, he was marched to Stalag in Eastern Europe and was ordered to escort sick prisoners of war who were being repatriated in 1943. - Farquhar Buzzard
Sir Edward Farquhar Buzzard, 1st Baronet KCVO, FRCP (20 December 1871 - 17 December 1945), was a prominent British physician and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1928-1943). Buzzard was the son of Thomas Buzzard and his wife Isabel Wass. During his eminent career he was Consultant Physician at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, Goulstonian Lecturer in 1907 at the Royal College of Physicians, London, a physician at the Belgrave Hospital for Children, … - R. Tait McKenzie
Robert Tait McKenzie Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario– April 28, 1938, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Canadian-born American sculptor, Scouter, scholar-athlete, surgeon, soldier, and physical educator. He resided in Philadelphia and worked with Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting. A medical graduate of McGill University and University champion gymnast he later became medical director of physical training at the University of Pennsylvania. - Ian McWhinney
Ian Renwick McWhinney, OC, FRCGP, FCFP, FRCP, (born October 11, 1926) is a Canadian physician and academic known as the "Father of Family Medicine" for his work in creating a family medicine program at the University of Western Ontario. Born in Burnley, England, he studied at Cheltenham College from 1940 to 1944. During World War II, he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, he studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at St. - James Hendry
James Hendry was Regius Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow from 1943 until his death in 1945. Hendry was born at Beith, Ayrshire in 1885 the son John Hendry, a butcher, and his wife Maggie Allan. He graduated MB from the University of Glasgow in 1910. After his graduation he spent two years studying obstetrics and gynaecology at Paris and at Freiburg, Germany. In 1913 he returned to Glasgow to act as Professorial Assistant to John Martin Munro Kerr, … - Denis Parsons Burkitt
Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt. Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and schools in England and Wales. In 1929 Burkitt entered Trinity College, Dublin, to study engineering but believing his evangelical calling was to be a doctor he transferred to medicine. - Gb Buckley
George Bent Buckley (born in Yorkshire c. 1885; died 26 April 1962, aged 77) was a celebrated cricket historian and an authority on the early days of the game. A surgeon by profession, he won the Military Cross in 1916 for working under fire when he was serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. After he retired, he devoted his time to researching early cricket history and travelled all over England to visit local libraries. - W. E. Hick
William Edmund Hick (1912-08-01 - 1974-12-20) was a British psychologist, who was a pioneer in the new sciences of experimental psychology and ergonomics in the mid-20th century. Hick trained as a doctor, taking the MB and BS degrees of the University of Durham in 1938, and the MD of the same University in 1949. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1941, … - Emanuel Hurwitz
Emanuel Hurwitz (May 7, 1919 - November 19, 2006) was a British violinist. He was born in London with parents of Russian-Jewish ancestry. He started playing the violin when he was five years old, and took up a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music at the age of 14. He was later a professor there. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps playing the violin in Stars in Battledress. In 1946, he founded the Hurwitz String Quartet. - Maurice Taylor
Bishop Emeritus Maurice Taylor was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway, Scotland 1981-2004. Born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, he attended Saint Cuthbert’s primary school, Burnbank, before going to Saint Aloysius’ College, Glasgow, and later Our Lady’s High School, Motherwell. He studied philosophy at Blairs College, Aberdeen, from 1942 to 1944 and then served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, at home, in India and in Egypt. - Basil Neven-Spence
Sir Basil Hamilton Hebden Neven-Spence (12 June, 1888 - 13 September, 1974) was a Scottish Conservative politician and military physician. Neven-Spence graduated from Edinburgh University in 1911. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps, seconded to help the Egyptian Army and government of Sudan, and in the First World War, mainly in the Middle East. In 1924 he returned to the United Kingdom to work as a specialist physician to the British Army in Aldershot, England, … - Jocelyn Brooke
Jocelyn Brooke (November 30, 1908 - 1966) was an English author born in Kent. He wrote several unusual and semi-autobiographical novels as well as some poetry. His most famous works include the Orchid Trilogy ("The Military Orchid" (1948), "A Mine Of Serpents" (1949) and "The Goose Cathedral" (1950)) and the Kafkaesque "Image Of A Drawn Sword". Educated at Bedales (after escaping twice from a public school) and Worcester College, Oxford, … - Joseph Crowdy
Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy CB (born 19 November 1923) is a retired English soldier and military doctor, a former Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps. - Robert Aim Lennie
Robert Aim Lennie was Reguis Professor of Midwifery at the University of Glasgow from 1946 to 1955. Lennie was born at Cambuslang, Glasgow in 1889 the son of Ritchie Lennie (January 24, 1847 – June 28, 1909), an Oil and Colour Manufacturer, from Kincardine, Perthshire, and his wife Isabella Crawford Smith, daughter of Brodie Smith, a Drapery Merchant, from Leslie, Fife. R.A. Lennie graduated MB from the University of Glasgow in 1912, … - Bertrand Dawson 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn
Bertrand Edward Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn GCVO KCB KCMG PC FRCP (9 March 1864-7 March 1945) was a doctor to the British Royal Family. Dawson was born in Croydon. He joined St Paul's School in London in 1877 and University College, London in 1879. After graduation he worked as a physician for several years and married Minnie Yarrow (a daughter of the future Sir Alfred Yarrow, … - Geoffrey Bridgeman
Brigadier Geoffrey John Orlando Bridgeman, MC, (3 July 1898 - 15 October 1974) was a British soldier. The second son of the 1st Viscount Bridgeman and Caroline Beatrix Parker, and younger brother of the 2nd Viscount, was educated in Eton College, Berkshire. Bridgeman graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts in 1920 and a Master of Arts in 1926. He received further a Bachelor of Medicine, and a Bachelor in Surgery in 1928. - Frank Cordell
Frank Cordell (1918-1980) was an accomplished British music composer, arranger and conductor. He was also actively involved with the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Sometimes he wrote music under the name Frank Meilleur or Meillear. Frank was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, his father was a respected medical doctor who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War. Frank had two sisters, and a brother who was a professional musician. - Walter Nugent Monck
Walter Nugent Monck was an English theatre director and founder of Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich. He was born in Welshampton, Shropshire in 1877. The child of the curate of Welshampton, he was educated in Liverpool and at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1895, he abandoned his study of the violin in favor of acting. After some years with a regional touring company, he premiered in London in Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's "Beyond Human Power" at the Royalty Theatre in 1901. - Percy Sands
Percy Robert Sands (1881 - 1965) was an English footballer, who spent seventeen years playing for Arsenal, making him one of the club's most enduring servants. Born in Norwood, London, Sands trained as a teacher, and joined Woolwich Arsenal (as they were then known) as an amateur in 1902. While still an amateur, he became the club's first-choice centre half in 1903-04, having made his debut against Blackpool on September 5, 1903.
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