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unusual facts about Assistant Surgeon



James Robb Church

James Robb Church (January 1, 1866 – May 18, 1923) was a United States Army Assistant Surgeon received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Spanish-American War.

William Seaman Bainbridge

A view years later he became Surgeon General of the American Boys' Brigade in the rank of Brigadier General and afterwards Assistant Surgeon of the US Naval Reserve.


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Albert Vander Veer

After passing a New York state examination he was commissioned in December, 1862, assistant surgeon of the Sixty-sixth Regiment New York Volunteers, and ordered to join his regiment at Falmouth, Virginia.

Anthony F. DePalma

Jobs were scarce owing to the Depression, and he felt fortunate to obtain in 1931 a position as assistant surgeon at the Coaldale State Hospital, in Coaldale, Pennsylvania, a mining town.

Charles Chandler Egerton

Four years later he was appointed by the East India Company assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment to practise as an oculist, and especially to take charge of those Indo-European lads at the lower orphan school who had contracted disease of the eyes.

Edward H. Hume

From 1903-1905 Hume was in Bombay as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service to monitor the Plague outbreak that had started in 1896.

Henry Porter

Henry Rinaldo Porter (1848–1903), Acting Assistant Surgeon in the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn

Herbert Taylor Reade

He became a Doctor of Medicine in 1850, and joined the British Army as an Assistant Surgeon in November of that same year.

James Cantlie

In 1877 Cantlie became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital; in 1886 he became Surgeon at Charing Cross.

John Gunning

He was the assistant surgeon to St. George's Hospital, London, from 21 January 1760 to 4 January 1765, and full surgeon from that date till his death.

John Jeremiah Bigsby

In 1816, he joined the British Army as an assistant surgeon and was stationed at the Cape of Good Hope in 1817.

Joseph Lennox Pawan

After studying at the Pasteur Institute in France he returned to Trinidad in 1913, first as an Assistant Surgeon at the Colonial Hospital in Port of Spain, and later as the District Medical Officer in Tobago and Cedros, in southwestern Trinidad.

Lawrie Hugh McGavin

His first post was as assistant surgeon at the London North-Western Hospital, and he later obtained posts as a surgeon at the King George Hospital and the Endsleigh Hospital for Officers, before being appointed consulting surgeon to the Dreadnought Hospital in Greenwich and the Hospital for Women.

Mark Rudkin

Rudkin's second was Dr. James Coulter Strachan (1794 - 1827), assistant surgeon of the Royal Veteran Company while Captain George Farquhar Morice (of the HMS Grasshopper) acted as Philpot's second.

Marmaduke Sheild

After leaving Cambridge Sheild held posts at St George's as anaesthetist and Westminster Hospital, culminating in a seven-year period at Charing Cross Hospital where he was assistant surgeon, aural surgeon, demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer in practical surgery.

Paul Ebert

He had internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital under Alfred Blalock, and then spent two years as a Senior Assistant Surgeon at the National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa

John Hendley (1820–1875) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, had been assistant surgeon in a Missouri volunteer regiment, and came to California in 1850, settling in the following year on his farm, where he died.

Robert William Weir Carrall

He practiced in Canada for a bit before becoming an assistant surgeon for the Union Army during the American Civil War working in Emory and Henry College Hospital (1862 to 1863) and at the Marine United States General Hospital at New Orleans (1863 to 1865).

Rufus Osgood Mason

During The American Civil War, (1861–1864) he became an Assistant Surgeon for The United States Navy.

Simon B. Conover

He was appointed acting assistant surgeon in 1866, and was assigned to Lake City, Florida.

Thomas Graham Balfour

From 1840 to 1848, he served as assistant surgeon in the Grenadier Guards.

Y. G. Parameshwara

In 1979, he was appointed Health Officer and Assistant Surgeon in the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Karnataka.