Samuel Guise-Moores

Major-General Sir Samuel Guise Guise-Moores KCB KCVO CMG (24 December 1863 – 3 October 1942) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War who also served as Honorary Surgeon to George V.

He commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in the Second Boer War, during which he was twice mentioned in dispatches. He served in France throughout the First World War running various hospitals before being appointed Director of Medical Services for the Second Army in April 1918, and later the same post for the Army of Occupation in Germany. He had responsibility for medical services at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Guise-Moores was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps between 1927 and 1933. He was made a Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1925.[1][2] He was made Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1931 Birthday Honours.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 33059. p. 4913. 23 June 1925. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33053. p. 3769. 3 June 1925. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33722. p. 3628. 3 June 1931. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
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