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RAMC profile of:
George Henry CHISNALL M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S.
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
Great Bentley, Co Essex on 4th April 1886

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Rank: t.Lt

Unit: No 7 General Hospital

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Also Served: 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders

Outcome: Killed in action

Date Died: 24/10/1914
Age Died: 28

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: Belgium - Cement House Cemetery

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George was educated at Franlingham College, Suffolk, and The London Hospital Medical College - entering the Pre. Sci Class in 1903, he qualified M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. in 1908; M.B., B.S. in 1910 and F.R.C.S. in 1913. For the next year he was Pathological Assistant; he was House-Physician to Dr Percy Kidd and Dr Henry Head, Receiving Room Officer, and House-Surgeon to Mr Jonathan Hutchinson and Mr Hugh Lett. He received his commission in the R.A.M.C. on 6th August 1914, and entered the war in France on 18th August attached to and started work in the surgical ward of No 7 General Hospital set up at Amiens. This was abandoned in the retreat from Mons, and he was then attached to the 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders. He was struck by a shell while attending to the wounded in the open during an engagement north of Ypres and died the following day in a hospital at Elverdinghe. George was the first F.R.C.S. to fall in the war. A former teacher wrote "Perhaps in nothing is the waste of war more apparent than in the loss of those who after years of patient study have slowly perfected themselves in the art of healing only to be blindly crushed at the very outset of his career. The thoughts of many at the London Hospital must have yielded some such reflections on hearing of the death at Poperinghe of George Henry Chisnall, killed by shell fire on Oct. 24th while attached to the 1st Cameron Highlanders. Not only was Chisnall at his academic distinctions prove, a student of outstanding ability, but he combined with a very thoughtful temperament an originality of outlook, an industry and a tenacity of purpose which persuaded his many friends that he would some day take a high position in his profession...." George was the son of Charles Henry and Eugenie Ellen Chisnall of Frating Abbey, Colchester.


 
Additional Information: Date Added: Wednesday 27 February, 2013
 
George's final resting place [Photograph courtesy of Mark Banning]


  
 
 
 
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