First World War Diaries of Anthony Bowlby
TitleFirst World War Diaries of Anthony Bowlby
ReferenceMS0004
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1893-1919
Admin./ biographical historySir Anthony Bowlby was a General and Military Surgeon. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1881). He became a Councillor of the College in 1904 and served until 1920, when he became President in succession to Sir George Makins, and served for three years. He delivered the Bradshaw Lecture in 1915 upon “Wounds in War”, in which he summarized the first year’s surgical work of the British Expeditionary Force in France. He was an Hunterian Orator in 1919, when he reviewed military surgery from the time of Hunter to the date of the Oration.
During the First World War, he was appointed as the Consulting Surgeon to the Forces, later being promoted to a super-consultant and general adviser at the Front to the Director General, Army Medical Service. Towards the end of the war, he became Adviser on Surgery for the whole of the British occupied areas, Front and Base.
For more information about Bowlby's life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/results?qu=anthony+bowlby&te=ASSET.
During the First World War, he was appointed as the Consulting Surgeon to the Forces, later being promoted to a super-consultant and general adviser at the Front to the Director General, Army Medical Service. Towards the end of the war, he became Adviser on Surgery for the whole of the British occupied areas, Front and Base.
For more information about Bowlby's life and career, please visit his profile on Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/search/results?qu=anthony+bowlby&te=ASSET.
Scope and ContentThis collection comprises 11 diaries recording Sir Anthony Bowlby's experiences as Consulting Surgeon to the British Army, and a bound volume of letters, cuttings and concerning Bowlby (mainly early 20th century).
Extent2 boxes
LanguageEnglish
System of arrangementThe records are arranged largely chronologically.
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SubjectArmed forces, Physicians
