The Regimental Officer and his Cash Duties

Thomas Crawford, regimental medical officer in the Crimea, 1855.

Thomas Crawford was an Ulsterman, born in the year 1824 at Dumbrain, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan. His family had their origins in Ayrshire and came from Scotland in 1698 after the main plantation of Ulster. Crawford studied medicine in Edinburgh and graduated there in 1845. On February 18th, 1848, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the 51st Regiment of Foot (Kings Own Light Infantry) and saw serv...

The Tuberculosis Officer and His Work

The tuberculosis officer is a comparative novelty. His. immediate action and eventual position in medicine are as yet uncertain, and if the following description of him is somewhat diagrammatic, the writer pleads these circumstances as his excuse. Two years' experience in city and county has indicated that the value of the tuberculosis officer's work will be in proportion to the extent to which...

John Bathurst Thomson MD 1813-1850. An insight into the times of a regimental medical officer.

Regimental Medical Officer Charles McKerrow: saving lives on the Western Front.

Ayrshire general practitioner Charles McKerrow was appointed regimental medical officer (RMO) to the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1915. At this time, fundamental restructuring of the military medical service on the Western Front had two main effects: surgical capability was moved forward as close to the front as possible and specialist stretcher bearers were trained to apply emerg...

Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers

Now that regimental officers are taught hygiene and that in Field Marshall Sir E. Wood's words the Army doctor is regarded as a " trusted staff officer to advise their chiefs how to guard the troops against the originating and spreading of disease," and when soldiers like Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien write an introduction to books like this, there is hope that in future wars the British Army may be ...