Joseph Crowdy

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Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy CB (born 19 November 1923) is a retired English soldier and military doctor, a former Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

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[edit] Background and education

The son of Lt-Col. Charles R. Crowdy and his wife Kate Porter, Crowdy was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (1933-1942), and the University of Edinburgh (1942-1947). He took the degrees of MB and BCh in 1947, and later a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (1956), Diploma in Public Health and Diploma in Industrial Health (both 1957).

[edit] Career summary

  • House surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 1947-1948
  • Joined Royal Army Medical Corps, 1949
  • Served in North Africa, 1952-1955
  • Served in Singapore, 1960-1962
  • Head of Applied Physiology, Army Personnel Research Establishment, 1963-1973
  • Professor of Army Health, Royal Army Medical College, 1973-1976
  • Senior Medical Officer, Land Forces Cyprus, 1976-1978
  • Director of Army Preventative Medicine, 1978-1981
  • Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1985-1988

[edit] Publications

  • Editor, Royal Army Medical Corps Journal, 1978-1983

[edit] Family

In 1948, Crowdy married Beryl Elisabeth Sapsford (died 1997), and they had four daughters.

[edit] Honours and appointments

  • Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 1974
  • Member, Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 1981
  • Fellow, Royal Institute of Public Health, 1982
  • Honorary Physician to the Queen, 1981-1984
  • Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1984

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