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The War.THE CASUALTY LIST.

THE following names of medical officers appear among the.casualties announced since our last issue :—

Wounded.

Capt. J. Crawford, R.A.M.C.Oapt. D. W. F. Jones, R.A.M.C., attached King’s Royal Rifle

Corps. ------

DEATHS AMONG THE SONS OF MEDICAL MEN.The following son of a medical man must be added to our

lists of those who have fallen during the war :—

Second Lieut. C. S. Dalziel, Durham Light Infantry, youngestson of Dr. W. Dalziel, of South Shields.

THE HONOURS LIST.The following awards to medical officers are announced :-

Military Cross.Capt. Edward James Blair, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He tended anddressed the wounded under heavy fire continuously for 18 hours. Heset a splendid example of courage and determination throughout.

Capt. Hawtrey William Browne, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He made atour of five regimental aid posts under very heavy fire and carried inmany wounded men. He set a splendid example throughout.

Temp. Capt. William George Thomas Hepplewhite, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He worked un-ceasinglv day and night supervising his bearers, clearing thewounded under very heavy fire. He set a splendid examplethroughout.

Temp. Capt. Herbert Bruce Low, R.A.M.C..For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He dressed thewounded and supervised the work of the bearers under very heavyfire. He set a splendid example of courage and coolness throughout.

Capt. John Wright Malcolm, R.A.M.C., Spec. Res.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayedgreat courage and determination in constantly directing bearer

squads under heavy fire. On another occasion he rescued severalmen who were buried.

Temp. Capt. Victor Harold Mason, R.A.M.C., East YorksRegiment.

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayed greatcourage and determination in tending and dressing the woundedunder very heavy fire.

Temp. Capt. Lloyd Remington Meech, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He worked con-tinuously for 48 hours collecting wounded under very heavy fire. Heset a splendid example throughout.

Temp. Lieut. Alexander Gordon Peter, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He tended anddressed the wounded under very heavy fire, displaying great courageand determination throughout.

Temp. Lieut. Albert Edward Sutton, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayedgreat courage and determination in tending the wounded underheavy fire. He worked single-handed all night in an advancedpost.

Temp. Capt. Harold Ernest Pierpoint Yorke, R.A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayedgreat courage and determination in tending the wounded under veryheavy fire. Later, although himself wounded, he continued to carryout his work.

Capt. William Malloch Hart, Canadian A.M.C.For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayedgreat courage and skill in evacuating wounded under most tryingconditions. On one occasion he worked for several hours in the openunder heavy fire attending to the wounded. He has previously donefine work.

Capt. Tom Welsh, S. African Med. C., attached SouthAfrican Infantry.

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He displayedgreat courage and determination in organising and leading stretcherparties under very heavy fire.It is officially announced that the name of Capt. Robert i

Burgess, R.A.M.C., is to be deleted from the list of those towhom the Military Cross is awarded (THE LANCET, Jan. 6th, 1917, p. 38).

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A SUPPLY depot for the St. John AmbulanceBrigade has been opened at Halkyn House, Belgrave-square,S.W.

OBITUARY OF THE WAR.

ERNEST HOWE, M.B., CH.B. VICT.,LIEUTENANT, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

Lieutenant E. Howe, who died last month of woundscontracted on active service, was 30 years of age. Hereceived his medical training at the Owens College,Manchester, and Manchester Royal Infirmary, graduatingM.B., Ch.B. of VictoriaUniversity in 1909.After holding the

appointment of housephysician at ManchesterRoyal 1 Infirmary hesettled in practice atHazel Grove, near Stock-port, until the need formedical officers in theR. A. M. C. became press- Iing, when he appliedfor a commission, whichhe obtained in October,1916. He was sent outto Salonica and was

resting after taking histurn in the trencheswhen he was woundedin several places byfragments of shellcliirinop an air raid.

One portion penetrated the chest and death rapidly resultedfrom shock. Lieutenant Howe had not practised longLn Hazel Grove, but had already, by his devotion to workand consideration for others, established himself in theesteem of his patients and professional colleagues. Heleaves a widow and two young children.

BENJAMIN RICHARD ROBERTS, L.R.C.P. &-, S. EDIN.,L.F.P.S. GLASG.,

LIEUTENANT, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS.

Lieutenant B. R. Roberts, who was killed in action inFrance early in August last, was educated at Queen’s College,Galway, and at the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh,where he took the triple qualification of the Scottish Collegesin 1898. Three years later he went out as civil surgeonattached to the R.A.M.C., serving in this capacity during theAnglo-Boer War. Shortly after the declaration of peace in

acting district surgeonacting district surgeonat Barberton, and sub-sequently medical officerin charge of the nativerefugee camps atKroonstad and Vereenig-ing. In November, 1903,he joined the medicalstaff of the CentralSouth African Railwaysin the Orange RiverColony, and in the

following year was sentto Johannesburg as addi-tional railway medicalofficer, a- post whichhe filled until early in1916, when he volun-teered for active servicein France. His deathwas due to a shell

explosion, and was instantaneous. The news of LieutenantRoberts’s death came as a great shock to the manyrailway men who had known him, and amongst whom hisgenial kindliness and skill made him deservedly popular.He took a keen interest in Volunteer work, and was for

years medical officer to the Railway Volunteer Engineer-ing Corps as it then existed. Lieutenant Roberts leavesa widow and two young sons, with whom much sympathyis felt.