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Sidney Maynard Smith
Sidney Maynard Smith Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath, CB Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, KStJ Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS (20 September 1875 – 18 March 1928) was a British surgeon and freemason. Smith was the son of W. H. Smith, a civil engineer attached to the British Admiralty, Admiralty (not to be confused with the William Henry Smith (1825–1891), W. H. Smith who was First Lord of the Admiralty). He was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, as was his older brother Percy Montague Smith (1871-1961), who was also a doctor and became FRCS. He served during the Boer War as a surgeon. For service during the First World War, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was awarded the Order of the Bath, CB by Britain and the Croix de Guerre by France; he was thrice mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the British Fifth Army in 1916, and later consulting surgeon to the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Companion Of The Most Honourable Order Of The Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred. The Order consists of the Sovereign (currently King Charles III), the Great Master (currently vacant) and three Classes of members: *Knight Grand Cross ( GCB) ''or'' Dame Grand Cross ( GCB) *Knight Commander ( KCB) ''or'' Dame Commander ( DCB) *Companion ( CB) Members belong to either the Civil or the Military Division.''Statutes'' 1925, art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
