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Name: SHIRCORE, John Owen CMG (Dr.)
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1882 Calcutta, India
Death Date: 23.6.1953 Zomba, Nyasaland
First Date: 1911
Profession: Medical Officer with EA Medical Service and author of numerous papers on Tropical Medicine. He was OC, Native Base Hospital, Mombasa in 1917
Area: Dar es Salaam, Mombasa
Married: No
Book Reference: Gillett, Debrett, Red 22, Gazette, Harmony, A. Allen, Chandler, Beck, Red 19
War Service: Mentioned in Despatches
School: Edinburgh University, MB, ChB, MRCP, LRCP, LFPS, Camb. Univ; London Univ.
General Information:
Debrett - appointed Medical Officer, Nyasaland 1908, Uganda Protectorate 1909, and E. Africa 1913, Dep. Principal Med. Officer, Tanganyika Territory 1919, Principal Medical Officer there 1924 and Dir. of Medical and Sanitary Services there 1925; was Capt. EA Medical Ser. 1914-18 (despatches)
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - East Africa Medical Services - To be Captain - Dr. J.O. Shircore
Member of Lodge Harmony - Initiated 7/7/13, age 30, Surgeon, Nairobi, died 3/7/53
A. Allen - J.O. SHIRECORE WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE EAST AFRICA MEDICAL SERVICES 1914 – 18. HE WAS AWARDED THE B.N. BORNEO MEDAL FOR HIS SERVICES TO THE NATIVE HEALTH, FOLLOWING AN INVESTIGATION IN BORNEO. DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL SERVICES EAST AFRICA 1939 – 45.
Red Book 1919 - Medical Officer, EA Protectorate 1918 - MO, Mombasa
Career: MO Nyasaland (1908-9); MO Uganda (1909-10); MO Nyasaland (1910-12); SMO i/c Sleeping Sickness Investigation, Nyasaland (1912-13); MO Kenya (1913-19); Captain EAMS (1914-18); DPMO Tanzania (1919-24); PMO Tanzania (1924-32); some work in Borneo [n.d.], returned to Nyasaland Medical Service (1946-8), retired Nyasaland (1948)