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Unidentified members of the IMS in France, during the First World War

This is an incomplete list of officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) before independence.[1]

A to B

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Name Year of entry Comments
Alfred William Alcock 1885 Passed eighth in the IMS.[2]
Henry John Andrews 1917 Died in action during the Waziristan campaign (1919–1920)[3]
George Bidie 1856 Served during Indian rebellion of 1857[4]
Edward Alfred Birch 1866 Served through Bihar famine of 1873–74.[5]
George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood 1854 Became a leading authority on Indian handicraft.[6]
Gerald Bomford 1874 Became Director-General of the IMS in 1905, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.[7]
Charles Bowle-Evans 1894 Served with relief force at Chitral Expedition and took part in the Tochi Expedition.[8]

C

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Name Year of entry Comments
Archibald Campbell (doctor) 1827 Superintendent of Darjeeling.[9]
Henry Vandyke Carter Made dissections for Gray's Anatomy.[10]
Henry Cayley 1857 Passing at top of the list in IMS exam. Later, awarded the Mutiny Medal.[11]
Havelock Charles Professor of Anatomy at Calcutta Medical College.[12]
P. V. Cherian ENT surgeon.[13]
Rickard Christophers
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty 1855 First Indian to pass IMS exam January 1855.[14]
William Robert Cornish 1854
John Corse Scott
John Crimmin
Dirom Grey Crawford 1881 Wrote the history of the IMS[15]
David Douglas Cunningham
Hiraji Cursetji

D to G

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Name Year of entry Comments
Umedram Lalbhai Desai
Charles Donovan
Stewart Ranken Douglas
Jamshedji Duggan
Theodore Duka
Alfred Eteson[16]
Joseph Fayrer
John Fleming (Gatton and Saltash MP)
Benjamin Franklin (surgeon) 1869
Peter Freyer 1875 Urological surgeon.[17]
Henry Goodeve 1831 First professor of midwifery and anatomy in 1835, at Calcutta Medical College.[18]
Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage 1907 Obsterics and gynaecology.[19]
Charles Robert Mortimer Green 1886

H to L

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Name Year of entry Comments
Arthur Francis Hamilton 1905 Professor at the Grant Medical College.[20]
George Harris (physician)
William Frederick Harvey
Patrick Hehir
Thomas Holbein Hendley
Richard Hingston
Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar
Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan
Robert Knowles (parasitologist)
Frank Lake
Trevor Lawrence
A. D. Loganathan
George Carmichael Low
Alvaro de Loyola Furtado
Pardey Lukis

M to S

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Name Year of entry Comments
Archibald Currie MacGilchrist
Frederick Percival Mackie
J. S. S. Martin
Robert McCarrison
Anderson Gray McKendrick
Thomas Moore-Lane
Frederic J. Mouat
Thomas Shephard Novis
Harold Rothery Nutt
David Prain
Amar Prasad Ray
Leonard Rogers
Ronald Ross
Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi
R. B. Seymour Sewell
Henry Edward Shortt
Kanwar Singh
John Alexander Sinton
J. N. Sen Gupta 1940 Was attached with the 21st Field Ambulance during the Battle of Keren, where he died on 17 March 1941.He is commemorated at the Keren Cremation Memorial, Eritrea.[21]
Sahib Singh Sokhey
John William Watson Stephens
Charles Stiebel(medical missionary) 1914
  • 1st Indian General Hospital(1914)
  • 5th Indian General Hospital(1915)
  • 135th Indian Field Ambulance
  • Attached to 62nd Punjabis
  • Fell in action, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1917
John Stephenson (zoologist)

T to W

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Name Year of entry Comments
William Temple (VC)
Thomas Thomson (botanist)
R. Marthanda Varma
Philip Verdon
Laurence Waddell
Frank Wall (herpetologist)
Herbert James Walton
Harry Frederick Whitchurch
Alfred Whitmore
Thomas Williams (Kennington MP)

References

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  1. ^ Crawford, Dirom Grey; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (1914). A history of the Indian Medical Service, 1600-1913 [electronic resource]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. London : Thacker.
  2. ^ C., W. T.; K., S. W.; M-B., P. (1933). "Alfred William Alcock. 1859-1933". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1 (2): 119–126. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1933.0008. JSTOR 768748.
  3. ^ "Casualty". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  4. ^ Anonymous (1913). "Obituary Surgeon-General George Bidie, CIE". British Medical Journal. 1 (2722): 473. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2722.473-a. PMC 2298621.
  5. ^ "Munks Roll Details for Edward Alfred Birch". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  6. ^ Chirol, Valentine (2004). "Birdwood, Sir George Christopher Molesworth (1832–1917), administrator in India". In Prior, Katherine (ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31896. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)(subscription required)
  7. ^ "Sir Gerald Bomford, K.C.I.E., Late Director-General, I.M.S.". The British Medical Journal. 1 (2834): 747. 24 April 1915. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.2834.747-a. ISSN 0007-1447. JSTOR 25313444. S2CID 220008424.
  8. ^ Venn, John (2011). Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 431. ISBN 978-1-108-03612-2.
  9. ^ Crawford, Dirom (1914), p.132
  10. ^ Crawford, Dirom (1914), p.369
  11. ^ England, Royal College of Surgeons of. "Cayley, Henry - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online". livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association". British Medical Journal. 2 (2022): 830–851. 30 September 1899. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.2022.830. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2412400.
  13. ^ "Directorate of Medical Education, Government of Tamil Nadu". www.mmc.ac.in. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  14. ^ P. C. Sen Gupta (1970). "Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty: the first Indian contributor to modern medical science". Med. Hist. 14 (2): 183–191. doi:10.1017/S0025727300015374. PMC 1034039. PMID 4914687.
  15. ^ Le Fanu, W. R. (January 1958). "Dirom Grey Crawford, 1857–1942". Medical History. 2 (1): 66–67. doi:10.1017/s0025727300023310. ISSN 0025-7273. PMC 1034346. PMID 13515827.
  16. ^ "Service Notes", The Indian Medical Gazette, May 1910, p. 197.
  17. ^ "Sir Peter Freyer". www.baus.org.uk. British Association of Urological Surgeons. 18 April 2019.
  18. ^ "Munks Roll Details for Henry Hurry Iles Goodeve". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  19. ^ Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882–1961). Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, Royal College of Surgeons. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  20. ^ Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG). (2014) RCOG Roll of Active Service, 1914-1918. London: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. p. 7. Archived here.
  21. ^ "Casualty". www.cwgc.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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