Friday, September 13, 2013

Bowie, Donald Cameron (1939-1945)

updated March 20, 2014.

b. January 31, 1897, Old Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland - d. September 7, 1983, London. MB, ChB (Glas.) 1914; FRCS (Edin.); FRCGP. RAMC, promotions: Lieutenant August 29, 1918; Temporary Captain October 1, 1919; Captain February 28, 1922; Major August 28, 1930; Lieutenant-Colonel [n.d.]; Colonel 1948; service: the Great War, France and Belgium 1914-21; employed with the Egyptian Army July 23, 1923 - January 16, 1925; attached to the Sudan Defense Force January 17, 1925 - August 28, 1925; Adjutant, Territorial Army February 1, 1925 - January 5, 1930; Hong Kong 1939-45. Regional Postgraduate Dean, the British Postgraduate Medical Federation, London Univ. Honor: OBE June 6 1946; Sir Arthur Keith Medal, Royal College of Surgeons, England March 1969.

HONG KONG April 1, 1939. British Military Hospital (Bowen Road Hospital), Surgeon 1939-EOP; Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, POW 1941-45; British Military Hospital, Surgeon 1941- July 1942, Medical Office In-Charge August 1942-45; repatriation, England 1945.

Publications: Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: The Story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945, Hong Kong: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, 1977; Traumatic False Aneurysm Simulating Bone Sarcoma, British Medical Journal, Vol. #36, Issue #143, January 1949, co-author: A.W. Kay, Major, RAMC.

Selected bibliography: Banham, Tony, We Shall Suffer There: Hong Kong's Defenders Imprisoned, 1942-45, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. Bowie, Donald C., Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: The Story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong 1942-1945, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. #15, 1975. The British Medical Journal, October 31, 1914, p.775. The half-yearly Army List for the Period Ending 31st December 1938, Gradation List of Officers of the British Army, p.399. Supplement to the British Medical Journal, August 21, 1948, p.92. Supplement to the London Gazette, September 19, 1919, p.11742; June 6, 1946, p.2735. The Official Website of  the University of Glasgow [internet]. Wellcome Library › Papers of Sir Matthew Fell (1872-1959).

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