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SIR WILLIAM BABTIE, V.C., who held many important posts in the Army Medical Service, died on September 11, in Belgium, where he was spending a holiday. Sir William was born in 1859 at Dumbarton, and was educated at Glasgow University, where he took his M.B. degree in 1880. In the same year he became L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S. of Edinburgh, and in the following year entered the Army Medical Service, of which he was made Deputy-Director-General in 1910. He retained this post until 1914, when he was appointed Director of Medical Services in India; later he filled the same office in the Mediterranean. He was created a K.C.M.G. in 1916 and a K.C.B. in 1919, and was known as an administrator rather than for his medical work.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 119 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106119a0
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