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On Active Service

CASUALTIES. The following casualties are announced:

KILLED

Captain EDWARD GIBBON, MRCS, RAMCMajor THOMAS PERCIVAL WARD, MB OAMB, RAMC

DIED

Lieut.-Colonel FRANCIS AUGUSTUS RODDY, MB DUBL, DPH, RAMCCaptain CYRIL WILSON WILLIAMS, LMSSA, RAMC

WOUNDED

Captain COLUMBA CRONIN, MB NUI, RAMOCaptain A. D. PARSONS, MO, MB DUEL, RAMOLieut.-Colonel G. S. N. HUGHES, DSO, LMSSA, IMSCaptain E. A. TARLETON, IMS ,

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APPOINTMENT

Brigadier J. C. A. DowsE, CBE, Me, MB DUBL, TO be a DMS withacting rank of major-general.

. MEMOIRS

Captain JOHN FLOYER VINCENT LART, MB CAMB., RAMC, waskilled by a mortar shell in January when as regimental MOhe went forward to attend the wounded of a company

heavy fire. He was bom at Charmouth,Dorset, in 1903, the son of Captain C. G.Lart, and educated at Weymouth Collegeand Caius College, Cambridge. He

qualified from St. Thomas’s Hospitalin 1929 and took his MB the followingyear. After holding a clinical assistant-ship in the children’s department atSt. Thomas’s and a house-appointmentat the East Cornwall Hospital, he joinedthe CMS hospital service and was putin charge of their hospital at Yezd inPersia. On his return he settled in

general practice at Devonport. A keen bird-watcher he

spent much of his leisure on the moors. In 1932 hemarried Margaret, daughter of Dr. E. H. Rainey ofEastbourne, and leaves her with one son.

C. R. C. writes: " John Lart was a man of spare andathletic build, quick and active in mind and body. Few menof forty are fit enough for the life of a regimental MO, buthe served in this capacity through the campaign in NorthAfrica and Italy. He knew how to be conscientious withoutgetting worried, untiring without being laborious, knowledge-able without specialising, clear in his views and yet resilientin discussion. Secure in the affection of people of all classesand effortless in all human contacts, Lart was an outstandinggeneral practitioner." ,

CaptainRoBERT HAYMAN JONES,the eldest son of Mr. D. R.Jones of Llanelly, was educated at Swansea Grammar Schooland University College, London. He took the conjointqualification from University College in 1939 when he was23, and graduated MB Lond the same year. He returned

to Llanelly as assistant to Ur. 1. H.Davies who writes :

" Children instinctively trusted them-selves to his gentleness while older

patients quickly realised that his diffi-dence arose from a characteristic under-estimation of his own knowledge andability. For his part, I believe, heenjoyed his first active contact with theproblems of clinical and social medicine.In the Army his outlook broadened stillfurther. In his letters he wrote of howwidespread and evenly distributed werehuman failings, and though he held tohis early political views as tenaciouslyas ever, ias adversaries were no ionger

people but their shortcomings."On joining the RAMC in 1940 Captain Jones was appointed

to the hospital carrier Maid of Kent and when it was destroyedthrough enemy action to the St. Andrew, where he helped toevacuate the wounded after the fall of France. He then wastransferred to the hospital ship Atlantis, where he remained fortwo years till he joined the Eighth Army before the battle ofEl Alamein. He served through the North African campaignand was later posted to Italy. He was killed in action in May.He leaves a widow, formerly Miss Pamela Mawdsely, s se,whom he married in 1939.

AppointmentsEGAN, JAMES, MB NUI: MO under the silicosis and asbestosis scheme

1931.BAIRD, DOROTHEA, I.B., MB EDIN., DPH, LM: asst. MOH for

Huddersfield.BIGGS, ROSEMARY, MB LOND. : asst. in pathology at the Radcliffe,

Infirmary, Oxford.CUDDIGAN,* J. P., MB NUI, DA: anaesthetist to the Maidenhead

Hospital, Berks.LEIPER, JOHN, MD ABERD. : examining factory surgeon for Aberdeen.O’BRIEN, J. R., BM OXFD : asst. in pathology at the Radcliffe

Infirmary, Oxford. ’

PENDERED, J. H., MD OAMB., FROS : asst. physician to the RoyalSouth Hants and Southampton Hospital.

ROBERTSON, *K. M., MD LOND., MRCP : orsst. physician to the RoyalSouth Hants and Southampton Hospital.

ROGAN, J. J., MB Nul, DPH, LM : temp. asst. MOH and asst. schoolMO for Blackpool.

STRONG,* L. V., 31B LOND., DA: anaesthetist to the MaidenheadHospital, Berks.

TUSTIN, E. M., MROS, DPH : examining factory surgeon for Wincan-ton, Somerset.

* For the duration of the war.

Births, Marriages and DeathsBIRTHS

BROOKS.-On June 3, in London, the wife of Surgeon Captain W. D. W. Brooks, RNVR—a daughter.

DAVIES.—On June 9, at Leeds, Dr. Winifred Davies (née Haigh) ofEdgerton, Huddersfield, wife of Captain Donald Davies,RAMC—a son.

DURSTON SMITH.-On June 7, at Bath, the wife of Captain H.Durston Smith, RAMC—a son.

EVANS.—On June 9, the wife of Captain Quentin Evans, RAMO. ofHerne Bay-a daughter.

GENT.—On June 5, at Newton Abbot, the wife of Surgeon Com-mander J. C. Gent, BN—a son.

HARRIS.—On June 3, in London, the wife of Dr. D. V. Harris-ason.

HERTEN-GREAVEN.—On May 25, at Buenos Aires, the wife ofMr. E. C. Herten-Greaven, FRCS—a son.

INGHAM.—On June 4, at West Bromwich, the wife of SurgeonLieutenant Roland Ingham, RNVR—a son.

IRVINE.-On June 3, at Heswall, the wife of Captain K. N. Irvine,RAMC—a son.

JENKINS.—On June 7, in London, the wife of Captain Rees Jenkins,RAMC—a son.

LAIDLOW.—On June 2, at Newcastle-Qn-Tyne, the wife of SurgeonLieutenant E. V. Laidlow, RNVR—a daughter.

LEEDHAM-GREEN.—On June 4, in London, the wife of Lieut.-ColonelJ. C. Leedham-Green, BAMO—a daughter.

LYTLE.—On June 4, at Attleborough, Norfolk, the wife of Squadron-Leader R. L. P. Lytle, MRCS—a son.

MCGARVEY.—On June 8, at Wells, Somerset, the wife of Dr. JohnMcGarvey—a daughter.

OASTLER.-On June 3, at Salisbury, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel EricOastler, RAMO—a son.

AYLOR.—On June 2, at Cardiff, the wife of Surgeon Lieut.-Com-mander E. E. T. Taylor, RNVR—a son.

MARRIAGESBOWEN-DAVIES—ATKINSON.—On June 10, in London, Alan Bowen-

Davies, rnaa, squadron-leader RAFVR, to Irene Maude Atkinson,flight-officer WAAF.

BUCKELL—GRAY.—On June 5, in London, Ernest William CornwallBuckell, MB, to Sybil Gray.

JOHNSON—DIXON.—On May 27, at Tidworth, Harold DaintreeJohnson, major, RAMO, parachute field ambulance, to PeggyDixon, FANY.

MAOWATT-WILSON.—On June 5, at Kingston, Surrey, Sir RobertMacWatt, major-general, IMS, retd, to Marguerite Wilson.

SUMPTION—FAIRGRIEVE.—On June 1, at Cinderford, HaroldHarding Sumption, MRCS, to Helen Fairgrieve, MPS.

DEATHSBURY.-On June 10, at Chinley, Derbyshire, Judson Sykes Bury,

MD LOND., FRCP, physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary1889-1912, aged 92.

CARR.-On June 2, at Worcester, Alfred Alexander Carr, Docteur enmedecine, MRCS, LRCPE, formerly of Cannes and Harley Street,aged 85.

CATON-JONES.—On June 9, at Pontesford, Salop, Frederick WilliamCaton-Jones, CB, MB LOND., colonel, late BAMO retd., aged 83.

Cox.-On June 4, at Hayle, Donald Maxwell Cox, MRCS, of Burghill.SHAW DUNN.—On June 10, at Edinburgh, John Shaw Dunn, MD

GLASG., M SC MANC.HABGOOD.—On June 6, at Bournemouth, William Habgood, MD

BRUX., MRCS, DPH, MOH for Sutton, 1908-34, aged 81.HAwLEY.-On June 7, at Walsall, Sidney Herbert Hawley, MD DURH.,

B SC BIRM, DPH, aged 72.NEECH.—On May 24, in Edinburgh, James Thomas Neech, MD

DURH., DPH, formerly MOH for Halifax.SCOTT.—On June 6, at Malvern, George Waugh Scott, OBE, MD

GLASG., DTM & H, aged 61.WESTON.-On June 5, in London, George Henry Weston, MB CAME,

DpH, aged 83.

Messrs. C. J. HEWLETT and Sor, LTD. have published abooklet on the treatment of arthritis with sodium bismuthyl-tartrate, now issued in sterile solution as S.B.T. ’ (see Lancct,,Feb. 19, 1944, p. 264).