Summary
Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow CB CMG OBE DSO (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]
Harold Percy Waller Barrow | |
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| Born | 30 June 1876 Wellington, Madras Presidency, India |
| Died | 20 December 1957 (aged 81) Hampshire, England |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ | British Army |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Unit | Royal Army Medical Corps |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Officer of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order |
Life edit
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]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Obituary, Maj.Gen.H.P.W. Barrow, The Times, 23 December 1957, p.8
- ^ a b Underwood, Andrew (1981). Bedford Modern School Of The Black & Red. Bedford Modern School. ISBN 9780950760803. OCLC 16558393.
- ^ a b "RAMC: Royal Army Medical Corps WW1". ramc-ww1.com.
- ^ a b "Barrow, Major-General Harold Percy Waller, (30 June 1876–20 Dec. 1957), RAMC; Colonel Commandant, 1941–46". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U234470. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1.
- ^ 1911 England Census
- ^ Hart′s Army list, 1901
- ^ "The War - Embarcation of Troops". The Times. No. 36099. London. 26 March 1900. p. 7.
- ^ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
External links edit
- Harold Percy Waller Barrow at the National Portrait Gallery