| Description Of Item | Form completed by doctors at the request of the SMSEC, which was set up by the Scottish Committee of the British Medical Association in order to manage shortages of doctors in wartime.
This form contains the following information:
Not Commissioned (Registration)
Qualifications: MD DPH
Address: 13 Battery Place
City/Town: Rothesay
Present work: General Practitioner with small Panel MOH for Rothesay and Bute District of County of Bute, School Med Officer for Bute
Age in 1916: 65
Additional information: [Letter written at back of form] Though I am returning this registration form as one who does not hold a commission, as a matter of fact I do hold a commission as Captain in the Territorial Force (Sanitary Service) dated 1st Jan 1909. The chief duties of such sanitary service officers are to give advice as to water supplies, suitable sites for camps etc in the case of a threatened invasion of the part of the country in which the officer resides. [Signed] 28th Dec 15. |