Other Information:Anthony was educated at Charter-house and New College, Oxford, where he became President of the University Lawn Tennis Club and won the Challenge Cup. He attended special courses at the London Hospital, then after passing M.B.
In 1915 he studied at Guy's Hospital, where he took the L.M.S.S.A. in. On qualifying he held the appointment of Assistant House-Surgeon to Mr. Rowlands, and it was said that he quickly made his name as a most promising operator. On 22nd February 1916, he received a commission at the rank of temporary lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and was for some months employed in training recruits at R.A.M.C. depots at Aldershot and Blackpool. He gained promotion to temporary Captain one year later, on 21st February 1917, then entered the war in France on the following 4th April.
While at Oxford Anthony had suffered a severe attack of hemorrhage from a duodenal ulcer. When with his regiment at the front he suffered a recurrence of this trouble and was evacuated sick. He died in No 29 Casualty Clearing Station from a hemorrhage of the stomach.
A colleague wrote:- Captain Traill was extremely popular. He was intensely interested in his professional work and an extremely quick and able operator. Though he did not serve for very long in France, he did a great deal of valuable work in training depots in this country at a time when the training of recruits was a more urgent necessity than the provision of medical officers for service at the front. Anthony was the second son of Edmund Bernard and Gertrude Ann Traill of Felmarsh, Essex, and Chiru, Traill, Argentina.
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