Other Information:Louis was educated at Manchester Grammar School, at King’s College, London, and at Leeds University, taking the degrees of M.D., F.R.C.S. and D.P.H. He was house surgeon to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, and later carried on general practice in the town, retiring in 1912. For more than 20 years he lectured and trained classes for the St John Ambulance Association, and acted as judge at various railway and colliery competitions. In 1897 he joined the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, and rose to the senior rank in it’s medical service. When the West Riding Territorial Division mobilized in August 1914, he proceeded with it, entering the war in France on 11th April 1915, attached as medical officer to the 1/5th Duke of Wellington Regiment. When there he took charge of the West Riding Casualty Clearing Station, where he remained for two years, until his health gave way. Returning to home service, he received the Territorial decoration, and then had to relinquish his commission owing to ill health. In 1916 he was made an honorary associate of the Grand Priory of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England. Louis died at southampton. He was the husband of Mrs A Demetriadi, the daughter of Dr J R Parke of Tideswee.
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