Harold Percy Waller Barrow
{{Short description|British general (1873–1957)}}
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{{Infobox military person
| honorific_prefix = Major-General
| name = Harold Percy Waller Barrow
| honorific_suffix = CB CMG OBE DSO
| image = Harold_Percy_Waller_Barrow.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|06|30|df=yes}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1957|12|20|1876|06|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Wellington, Madras Presidency, India
| death_place = Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England
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| allegiance = {{UK}}
| branch = British Army
| rank = Major-General
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| unit = Royal Army Medical Corps
| awards = Companion of the Order of the Bath
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
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Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|CMG|OBE|DSO}} (30 June 1876 – 20 December 1957) was Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps (1941–46) and an Honorary Surgeon to King George V.Obituary, Maj.Gen.H.P.W. Barrow, The Times, 23 December 1957, p.8{{Cite book|title=Bedford Modern School Of The Black & Red|isbn=9780950760803|year=1981|oclc = 16558393|last1=Underwood|first1=Andrew|publisher=Bedford Modern School }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ramc-ww1.com/profile.php?cPath=211_655&profile_id=9982&osCsid=29|title=RAMC: Royal Army Medical Corps WW1|work=ramc-ww1.com}}
Life
Harold Percy Waller Barrow was born in Madras Presidency, India on 30 June 1876.{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-234470|title=Barrow, Major-General Harold Percy Waller, (30 June 1876–20 Dec. 1957), RAMC; Colonel Commandant, 1941–46|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U234470|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}1911 England Census He was the son of an Army Surgeon, Henry John Waller Barrow, and Florence Ellie Macdonald. Barrow was educated at Bedford Modern School and Guy's Hospital, London.
Barrow joined the Royal Army Medical Corps from Guy's in 1898, and was commissioned a lieutenant on 28 January 1899.Hart′s Army list, 1901 The following year, he left Southampton on the SS Umbria in March 1900 to serve in the Second Boer War in South Africa, where he was attached to No. 11 General Hospital.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The War - Embarcation of Troops |date=26 March 1900 |page=7 |issue=36099}} He later served in World War I, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919.
In 1919, he was appointed Director of Hygiene and Pathology in India and later Director of Hygiene at the War Office between 1924 and 1930. In 1926, he was appointed an honorary surgeon to King George V. After his retirement he was sent to Antigua as health officer and he was a member of the Federal Executive Council of the Leeward Islands from 1930 until 1933. From 1941 to 1946, he served as Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps and from 1943 to 1952 he was a commissioner of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Barrow died in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, England on 20 December 1957.England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
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External links
- [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp66999/harold-percy-waller-barrow Harold Percy Waller Barrow at the National Portrait Gallery]
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