Robert James Valentine PULVERTAFT, OBE, MD, FRCP, Royal Army Medical Corps

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    Captain (temporary Major) (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) Robert James Valentine Pulvertaft, M.D., F.R.C.P., Royal Army Medical Corps, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
    Lieutenant-Colonel Pulvertaft arrived in the Middle East in September, 1940, as pathologist on the staff of a 1,200-bed general hospital. In June, 1942, he was appointed Officer-in-Charge Central Pathological Laboratory in Cairo, combining with this the duties of Deputy Assistant Director of Pathology, later upgraded Assistant Director of Pathology in the Middle East.

    This officer is a distinguished pathologist in civil life on the staff of Westminster Hospital, London. He has brought to the Army not only a rich store of experience but an original and inquiring mind.

    In addition to carrying out the routine work of his appointments he has interested himself in research work, especially in the treatment of infected wounds.

    His study of this treatment with chemotherapeutic substances has been accepted as of real value by the War Wounds Committee in the United Kingdom and especially his laboratory research into the substance now known as Penicillin. By most industrious and painstaking investigations and experiments he has added considerable knowledge to the development of this substance. The introduction of Penicillin into war surgery will undoubtedly revolutionise the treatment of septic wounds.

    In addition to his military duties, Lieutenant-Colonel Pulvertaft has rendered valuable aid to the British Council in Egypt under whose aegis he has given a series of lectures with highly commendable results.
    Lieutenant-Colonel Pulvertaft was born in Dublin.


    http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...asp?Edoc_Id=7682342&queryType=1&resultcount=1
    Name Pulvertaft, Robin James Valentine
    Rank: Captain
    Service No: 157581
    Regiment: Royal Army Medical Corps
    Theatre of Combat or Operation: Middle East (Egypt and Libya)
    Award: Order of the British Empire
    Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 06 January 1944
    Date 1943-1944
    Catalogue reference WO 373/77

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