On the outbreak of the First World war Symonds left his medical studies and joined the British Army, serving as a despatch rider in the motorcycle section of the Royal Engineers.
He studied with Sir Charles Symonds who taught the importance of neurologic mechanisms to studying disorders.
The importance of severe headaches in the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage has been known since the 1920s, when London neurologist Charles Symonds described the clinical syndrome.
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