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Bruce Skinner
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Major General Bruce Morland Skinner, CB, CMG, MVO, OStJ, MRCS (3 April 1858 – 3 May 1932)[1] was a British Army officer and surgeon who served as Surgeon-General during the First World War.
Skinner was the eldest son of Charles Bruce Skinner and Harriette Catherine Tudor.[2] He was educated at Bloxham School and the Royal Army Medical College before commissioning into the British Army as a medical officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps.[3] He first saw active service on the North-West Frontier expedition of 1887 to 1888.[4] He was deployed to South Africa during the Second Boer War between 1899 and 1902, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 29 July 1902,[5] and was made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) in 1906. Skinner served as Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India in 1910 and was Senior Medical officer in Rawalpindi.[6] He was subsequently Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College.[7] He served in the First World War and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George on 14 January 1916.[8] He became Temporary Surgeon-General on 1 November 1916 while working as the Director of Medical Services.[9] He was invested as an Officer of the Venerable Order of Saint John on 25 October 1927.[10]
He married Monica, the daughter of Henry Whitehouse of the Madras Civil Service.[11] They had three sons and a daughter.[12]
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