KING, COLIN

Description

Comprises a typescript by Colin King about his experiences as a general practitioner in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1914-1918 in World War 1. The account was written in retrospect, although the amount of detail given suggests that King may have been drawing from his diaries of the time.

Biography or history

Dr Colin King was born in Brinkley, Cambridgeshire in 1879. He was the son of Robert William King, who farmed his own estate at Brinkley Hall, and his wife Ellen Butler. In 1908 King married Lilian Margaret who was born in Calcutta. At the outbreak of the war King was a general practitioner in Cuckfield, Sussex. There was a local V.A.D. detachment in the village which had already formed plans for a hospital. King was initially charge of the hospital. He then applied for a temporary commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was accepted. During the War he had varied experiences, working as a Royal Medical Officer to different units in England, at a general hospital in France and with the field ambulance for a year in Northern France and Belgium. King also served at various clearing stations as an attached field ambulance man, second surgeon, surgical specialist and team surgeon. After the war he continued to work in Cuckfield for a while, then moving to Cambridge. King
retired to Newton Abbott in Devon.

Provenance

Donated to Special Collections by Colin King's, great neice, Dorothy King.

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