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Remembered Today:

Dr Percy Lazarus-Barlow, RAMC


seaJane

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Came across this obituary of a GW RAMC veteran while looking for details on his father, and thought it might be as well to record it here, although the details of his service aren't extensive: http://jcp.bmj.com/content/21/2/227.full.pdf

 

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I now find that his father Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow also served in France for two years, despite having had his left arm amputated in 1901 after getting it infected during a post-mortem: http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2674

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Jane

A great many medical students left their studies during the war and with many being members of university OTC's took combatant commissions. The BMJ and Lancet carried obituaries for many of them as the war progressed. As in the case of your man, many went back to their studies having been ordered to due to the shortage of doctors.

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Much the same with surgeon probationers RN, Pete. Thanks for that detail. This, of course, is a rather later death.

 

On another tack, I'm beginning to wonder if the compiler of Munk's Roll misguidedly ascribed the son's war service to the father.

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6 hours ago, seaJane said:

I now find that his father Walter Sydney Lazarus-Barlow also served in France for two years, despite having had his left arm amputated in 1901 after getting it infected during a post-mortem: http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2674

 

Some similarities to Hamilton Bailey's war service, who volunteered whilst still a medical student.

To say his war was eventful is a bit of an understatement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Hamilton_Bailey

After the war, nicked his finger whilst operating, the finger then went on to get infected, and was amputated.

Then had a brilliant career as a surgeon and medical educator.

 

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Diolch Dai! Fascinating, that.

 

Pity our album of Haslar intakes has no photographs between 1915 and 1918 - I might have been able to track down a picture of him as an RN temporary surgeon...

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