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RAMC profile of:
William JOHNSON M.D.
 
 


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Rank: Major

Unit: 58th Field Ambulance

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Also Served: 62nd Casualty Clearing Station

Outcome: Survived the war

Date Died: 15th March 1949
Age Died: 63

Where Buried and/or Commemorated:

Awards: MC

Gazette Reference: 2/9/1916
 


Other Information:

William was educated at Guy’s Hospital, graduating M.B., B.S. and M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P [Lond.] in 1908. He then held several resident posts at Guy’s and embarked upon his career as a physician with special interest in neurology. He became chief clinical assistant in the neurological department at Guy’s Hospital, and proceeded M.D. [Lond.] in 1911 and took the M.R.C.P. [Lond.] in 1912. William joined the R.A.M.C., Special Reserve. He entered the war in France on 17th July 1915 and served with the 58th Field Ambulance from 1915 to 1917. During this time he was warded the Military Cross “ For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led the bearer division of his unit for seven consecutive days during heavy fighting. He was repeatedly under heavy fire when rescuing the wounded. He has always set a fine example of courage.” He then became Physician and Neurologist at 62nd Casualty Clearing Station from 1917 and contributed the article on "Neuroses in France" to the official Medical History of the War. He demobilized in March 1919 and made the decision to engage in consulting practice in Liverpool, and was appointed assistant physician to the Royal Southern Hospital and to the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. He later became senior physician to both of them. He was elected F.R.C.P. in 1926, and among other appointments he held that of lecturer in clinical medicine and clinical pediatrics in the University of Liverpool. He was president of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1939, and at the time of his death he was president of the Section of Neurology of the Royal Society of Medicine. [Information sources:British Medical Journal; 1918 The Medical Directory; Guy's Hospital Reports and MIC. Photograph from War Illustrated. (With thanks to Caryl GWF]


 
 
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