List of Indian Medical Service officers

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Unidentified members of the IMS in France, during the First World War

This is an incomplete list of officers of the Indian Medical Service (IMS) before independence.[1]

NameYear of entryComments
Alfred William Alcock1885Passed eighth in the IMS.[2]
Henry John Andrews1917Died in action during the Waziristan campaign (1919–1920)[3]
George Bidie1856Served during Indian rebellion of 1857[4]
Edward Alfred Birch1866Served through Bihar famine of 1873–74.[5]
George Birdwood1854Became a leading authority on Indian handicraft.[6]
Gerald Bomford1874Became Director-General of the IMS in 1905, succeeding Benjamin Franklin.[7]
Charles Bowle-Evans1894Served with relief force at Chitral Expedition and took part in the Tochi Expedition.[8]
Wajid Ali Khan Burki1926Ranked first among the only four officers selected from a pool of over sixty foreign-qualified candidates. Served in World War II, earned the awards of MBE and CBE. Reached the rank of Lieutenant General and served as Director General of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps.[9]

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NameYear of entryComments
Archibald Campbell (doctor)1827Superintendent of Darjeeling.[10]
Henry Vandyke CarterMade dissections for Gray's Anatomy.[11]
Henry Cayley1857Passing at top of the list in IMS exam. Later, awarded the Mutiny Medal.[12]
Havelock CharlesProfessor of Anatomy at Calcutta Medical College.[13]
P. V. CherianENT surgeon.[14]
Rickard Christophers
Soorjo Coomar Goodeve Chuckerbutty1855First Indian to pass IMS exam January 1855.[15]
William Robert Cornish1854
John Corse Scott
John Crimmin
Dirom Grey Crawford1881Wrote the history of the IMS[16]
David Douglas Cunningham
Hiraji Cursetji

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H to L

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NameYear of entryComments
Archibald Currie MacGilchrist
Frederick Percival Mackie
J. S. S. Martin
Robert McCarrison
Anderson Gray McKendrick
Thomas Moore-Lane
Frederic J. Mouat
Thomas Shephard Novis
Harold Rothery Nutt
David Prain
Amar Prasad Ray
Leonard Rogers
Ronald Ross
Krishnaswami Srinivas Sanjivi
R. B. Seymour Sewell
Henry Edward Shortt
Kanwar Singh
John Alexander Sinton
J. N. Sen Gupta1940Was attached with the 21st Field Ambulance during the Battle of Keren, where he died on 17 March 1941.He is commemorated at the Keren Cremation Memorial, Eritrea.[22]
Sahib Singh Sokhey
John William Watson Stephens
Charles Stiebel(medical missionary)1914
  • 1st Indian General Hospital(1914)
  • 5th Indian General Hospital(1915)
  • 135th Indian Field Ambulance
  • Attached to 62nd Punjabis
  • Fell in action, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1917
John Stephenson (zoologist)

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