Major General Arthur James Calder the Viscount Tideford

Male

Birth date: 3.10.1871 y.

Cabin: General Duties Medical Officers-57

Biography:

Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Calder qualified as a doctor in 1894 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1896. He served in China (1900) during the Boxer Rebellion—Mentioned in Despatches—and in the Boer War (1901–02), where his field sanitation work earned him the DSO. After Staff College, he lectured in hygiene at the Royal Army Medical College and became known for his grasp of medical logistics, receiving the CB in 1911.

With the outbreak of the Great War, he went to France as Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, was wounded at Ypres, and later joined the Dardanelles Expeditionary Force in 1915. At Mudros, he directed hospital shipping and sanitation for Gallipoli, personally overseeing the medical evacuation during the withdrawal of December 1915–January 1916—his composure earning a second Mention in Despatches.

In 1916, the War Office selected him for promotion to Major-General and appointment as Director of Medical Services, British Salonika Force. Proceeding to assume command, he sailed aboard HMHS Britannic

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