• Operation Market Garden

Date of birth:

July 10th, 1917

Date of death:

September 24th, 1992

Service number:

188263

Nationality:

British

Thomas Swinscow studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital and served in army for five years in Africa and, as parachutist, in Holland and Norway becoming a Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel at the end of the war.. From 1946 he worked full time on the British Medical Journal as an editor, and who was one of the world's foremost lichenologists.

Promotions:
May 10th, 1941: 2e Luitenant Royal Army Medical Corps

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Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Captain

Unit:

1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron, 1st Airborne Division, British Army

Awarded on:

March 20th, 1947

Awarded for:

Operation Market Garden

Citation:
"At Arnhem on 17th September 1944 9 Section C Troop had 3 wounded men lying out some 50 yards in front of a wood. Very heavy enemy machine gun and mortar fire was coming from the wood opposite only 300 yards away. Under withering fire the Medical Officer went out with 2 stretcher bearers to the wounded men. He treated the first and then despatched him with the stretcher bearers. He remained himself with the other wounded man still under heavy fire until the stretcher bearers return. During this time the Medical Officer was hit himself in the back. Having no regard for his personal safety he helped the second wounded man on to the stretcher and got him safely back to the wood. This Officers devotion to duty and personal gallantry was outstanding."

LG 37909/1315
WO 373/144/230

• - Copy of the original recommendation for the Bronze Cross - STIWOT-archive
  - The London Gazette Publication date:6 June 1941 Issue:35186Page:3311
  - The London Gazette Publication date:18 March 1947 Issue:37909Page:1315
  - PubMedCentral Canada
  - Cambridge University Press
  

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Memorial bench Dougal Swinscow

Lydford - Devon