Lieutenant Arthur Ruscombe Crane Parsons
LRCP (Lond)
30 Oct 1874 [Southsea Hants] – 25 Nov 1970
Service Record
29 Nov 1900 Lieutenant RAMC.
Malta 25 May 1901 Arrived from England.
Dec 1901 To Crete.
Malta May 1902 Arrived from Crete.
Malta 8 Feb 1903 Home leave.
31 May 1903 Returned to Malta.
On duty at Valletta Hospital.
29 Nov 1903 Captain RAMC.
1904 Officer-in-Charge Ghajn Tuffieha Non Diet hospital.
June 1905 Officer-in-Charge Ghajn Tuffieha Non Diet hospital.
16 July 1905 Home leave.
8 Oct 1905 Returned to Malta.
Oct–Dec 1905 At Forrest Hospital St Julian's.
Jan 1906 Officer-in-Charge Mtarfa Military Hospital.
12 Mar 1906 Returned Home.
1908 Specialist in Operative Surgery.
1909–1910 Served in West Africa.
29 May 1912 Major RAMC.
28 July 1914 Start of the Great War.
4 Aug 1914 Britain declares war on Germany.
1914–1915 Served with the British Expeditionary Force in France.
1915–1917 Served in Salonica.
29 Mar 1918 Lieutenant Colonel.
1919 Served in India (invalided).
10 May 1922 Retired.
Bibliography
- Entry No: 209. Drew R. 1968. Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army 1690–1960. Vol II Roll of Officers in the Royal Army Medical Corps 1898–1960, London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
- Succession Books Vol XXI, Returns of statement of service of RAMC Officers.