Harold Percy Waller Barrow
Major-General Harold Percy Waller Barrow, was a British Army officer and physician. He served as Colonel Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps and was an Honorary Surgeon to King George V.
Early life
Harold Percy Waller Barrow was born in Madras Presidency, India, on 30 June 1876. 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.Military career
Barrow joined the Royal Army Medical Corps from Guy's in 1898, and was commissioned a lieutenant on 28 January 1899. 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. He later served in the First World War and the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919.In 1919, Barrow 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, on 20 December 1957.