Anthony Bowlby
| Sir Anthony Bowlby, Bt | |
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Sir Anthony Bowlby as a Major-General
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| Born |
10 May 1855 Namur, Belgium |
| Died |
7 April 1929 (aged 73) Lyndhurst, Hampshire |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1899-1900 1914–1918 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Battles/wars |
Second Boer War First World War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order |
Major-General Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby, 1st Baronet KCB KCMG KCVO (10 May 1855 – 7 April 1929) was a British Army officer, surgeon and pathologist.
He was born in Namur, Belgium, the son of Thomas William Bowlby (1818–1860), a correspondent to The Times who died in captivity in China. Anthony was educated at Durham School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (1876), qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1879.
In 1880 he was appointed House Surgeon at St Bartholomew's, was promoted to Surgical Registrar to the Hospital and Demonstrator of Practical Surgery in 1884, then to Assistant Surgeon and in 1903 to full Surgeon. During the Second Boer War (1899–1900) he served as a medical officer in South Africa at the Portland Field Hospital, Bloemfontein, after which he was invested as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
He was Surgeon to King Edward VII's Household between 1904 and 1910 and Honorary Surgeon-in-Ordinary to King George V in 1910. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1911.
He served in France in the First World War as Consulting Surgeon to the Forces, with the rank of Major-General, Army Medical Services and towards the end of the war became Adviser on Surgery for the whole of the British area, Front and Base. His main achievement was the development of Casualty Clearing Stations into quasi hospitals carrying out major surgery.
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