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Edmunds, Arthur, 1874-1945, Hunterian Professor of Surgery

  • KCL-AF1089
  • Person
  • 1874-1945

Born, 17 April 1874; educated, Medical Department, King's College London; awarded the University of London Exhibition in Zoology, 1893; University Scholarship in Physiology, 1895; awarded Exhibition and Gold Medal in Physiology, and First class honours in Materia Medica, 1898; House Surgeon, King's College Hospital, 1901; Assistant Demonstrator, King's College London, 1902-1904, and Demonstrator, 1904-1905; Sambrooke Surgical Registrar, King's, 1902-1906, and Senior Surgical Registrar and Tutor, 1910-1912; Assistant Surgeon, King's, 1912; Surgeon, King's, 1919; Senior Surgeon and Lecturer in Surgery, King's; Fellow of King's College, 1931; Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, 1926 and 1933; Surgeon-Rear-Admiral and Consulting Surgeon, Royal Navy; retired from King's College, 1934; appointed Consulting Surgeon, King's College Hospital, and Emeritus Lecturer on Surgery to the Medical School; died 29 November 1945.

Publications: Glandular enlargement and other diseases of the lymphatic system (1908); part author of A manual of surgical treatment (Longmans & Co, London, 1912).

Edmonds, Sir James Edward, 1861-1956, Knight, Brigadier General

  • KCL-AF0232
  • Person
  • 1861-1956

Born in 1861; educated at King's College School, London and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; entered Royal Engineers, 1881; Capt, 1890; Major, 1899; Instructor, Royal Military Academy, 1890-1896; Staff College, 1896-1897; Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence Division, War Office, 1899-1901; publication of Handbook of the German Army (HMSO, London, 1900); served in South Africa, 1901-1902; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, Intelligence Division, War Office,1904-1908; publication of A history of the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865 (with Henry Spencer Wilkinson) (Methuen and Co, London, 1905); Lt Col, 1906; Secretary to British Delegation to Geneva Conference, 1906; British Delegate to Red Cross Conference, 1907; Col, 1909; General Staff Officer Grade 1, War Office, 1909-1910; General Staff Officer Grade 1, 4 Div, 1911-1914; publication of Land warfare: an exposition of the laws and usages of war on land for the guidance of officers of His Majesty's Army (with Lassa Francis Lawrence Oppenheim (War Office publication, 1912); served at General HQ, BEF, 1914-1918; Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, BEF, 1918; Officer in charge of Military Branch, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1919-1949; publication of Military operations: France and Belgium (13 volumes) (HMSO, London, 1922-1948) and Military operations: Italy (with Henry Rudolph Davies) (HMSO, London, 1949), parts of the official history of World War One; publication of A short history of World War One (Oxford University Press, London, 1951); died in 1956.

Edgell, Sir John Augustine, 1880-1962, Knight, Admiral

  • KCL-AF0230
  • Person
  • 1880-1962

Born in 1880; joined RN, 1894; appointed to command HMS MUTINE, Africa Station in 1912, and went on tocommand HMS TRITON, HMS HEARTY, HMS ENDEAVOUR, HMS MERLIN and HMAS MORESBY; served in the North Sea and theDardenelles during World War One; Cdr, 1915; Superintendant of Charts, Admiralty, 1917-1920 and 1923-1925; Capt, 1923; AssistantHydrographer, 1928-1930 and 1931-1932; Hydrographer of the Navy, 1932-1945; R Adm, 1935; V Adm, 1938; retired list, 1938; ActingConservator of the Mersey, 1945-1951; British Delegate at International Hydrographic Conference in 1919, 1929, 1932 and 1937; died in1962.

Edgell, Philip Mawbey, 1906-1997, Lieutenant Colonel

  • KCL-AF0231
  • Person
  • 1906-1997

Born 1906; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; Maj, 1940; Officer Commanding 345 Reserve MotorTransport Company, Royal Army Service Corps, 1940-1941; service in North Africa, 1940-1943, including siege ofTobruk, Libya, Apr-Jul 1941; Headquarters, Suez Canal Area, 1941-1942; retired from Reserves, 1962;County Councillor, Surrey, 1967-1974; died 1997.

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Edens, Charles Henry, 1908-1968, Able Seaman

  • KCL-AF0229
  • Person
  • 1908-1968

Born Rotherham, Kent, 1908; serving as Boy on the HMS IMPREGNABLE, 1924; HMS AJAX, 1924-25; HMS CALYPSO, 1925-1927; Ordinary Seaman, 1926; Able Seaman, 1927; HMS PEMBROKE I, 1927-1928; invalided out 1929; died in 1968.

Ebbutt, Wilfrid Alick, 1906-1987, Lieutenant Colonel

  • KCL-AF0228
  • Person
  • 1906-1987

Born in 1906; 2nd Lt, 1936; service with Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 1936-1945; service with 59 (Home Counties)(Cinque Ports) Field Bde, Royal Artillery, Territorial Army, 1938; served at Headquarters, 61 (North Midland) Field Regt, Royal Artillery,Territorial Army, 1939; Lt and temporary Capt, 1939; Senior Bombardment Liaison Officer, No 2 Combined Operations Bombardment Unit, attached to 4 Bde, 1 Div Free French Army and 421 Field Artillery Group, US Army, serving in southern France and Italy,1944-1945; died 1987.

Eaton, Sir John Wilson Musgrave, 1902-1981, Knight, Vice Admiral

  • KCL-AF0227
  • Person
  • 1902-1981

Born 1902; educated at Temple Grove, Eastbourne, Royal Naval College Osborne and the Royal Naval College Dartmouth; Midshipman, HMS BARHAM, Flagship of V Adm Sir William Coldingham Masters Nicholson, commanding 1 Battle Sqn, Atlantic Fleet, 1919-1922; Promotion Course, Portsmouth, 1922; HM Destroyers, 1922-1925; Sub Lt, 1923; served on HMS WIVERN, 3 Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, 1924-1926; Lt, 1925; HM Submarine H50, 6 Submarine Flotilla, 1926-1929; HMS MALAYA, 2 Battle Sqn, Atlantic Fleet, 1929-1930; HMS BOREAS, 4 Destroyer Flotilla, Mediterranean Fleet, 1931-1933; Lt Cdr, 1933; commanded HMS RESTLESS, Portsmouth,1934-1935; commanded HMS WESTMINSTER, 21 Flotilla, Home Fleet, 1935-1936; commanded HMS BOREAS, 4 Flotilla, Home Fleet, 1936-1939; Cdr, 1937; Student, RN Staff College, Greenwich, 1939; commanded HMS VENETIA, Reserve Fleet, Devonport, 1939; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; service in HM Destroyers, including HMS MOHAWK, HMS SOMALI and HMS ESKIMO, 1939-1943; awarded DSC, 1941; awarded DSO, 1941; Capt (Destroyers), HMS SOMALI, 6 Destroyer Flotilla, Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, 1942; commanded HMS SOMALI, attached to 1 Cruiser Sqn, the covering force for convoy PQ17, Jul 1942; Admiralty, 1944; Capt of HMS SHEFFIELD, 1945; Capt of HMS ST VINCENT, RN BoysTraining Establishment, Gosport, Hampshire, 1946-1948; Imperial Defence College, 1948-1949; Admiralty and Ministry of Defence, 1949; Director, RN Staff College, Greenwich, 1949-1951; R Adm, 1951; Flag Officer Commanding HM Australian Fleet, HMAS AUSTRALIA, 1951-1953; awarded CB, 1953; Flag Officer Commanding Reserve Fleet, HMS CLEOPATRA, 1954-1955; Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station, HMS KENYA, 1955-1956; Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, 1955-1957; created KBE, 1956; retired 1958; died 1981.

East, Charles Frederick Terence,1894-1968, physician

  • KCL-AF0794
  • Person
  • 1894-1968

Charles Frederick Terence East (known as Terence); son of Charles Harry East; born, 1894; appointed as Junior Physician, Senior Medical Tutor and Lecturer in Morbid Anatomy at King's College Hospital, 1924; Physician to King's College Hospital, 1931; Senior Physician and Director of Medical Studies in King's College Medical School, 1945-1959; retired 1959; died, 1968.

Charles Harry East, father of Charles Frederick Terence East; born 1861; educated at King's College London, 1880-1884; Medical Tutor and Registrar, House Surgeon, House Physician and Ophthalmology clinic assistant, King's College Hospital; Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, King's College London.

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