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Name: DRAKE-BROCKMAN, Ralph Evelyn DSO (Dr.)

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Nee: 7th son of William Drake-Brockman of Bournemouth

Birth Date: 1.10.1875 India

Death Date: 15.11.1952 Worthing

Nationality: British

First Date: 1903

Last Date: 1904

Profession: Medical Officer - left the service in 1904

Area: Kisumu, Nairobi, Yonte

Married: In East Preston, Sussex 1917 Helen Maud Pilkington b. 4 June 1895 Woking, d. 3 June 1975 Bath

Children: Julian Francis (28 Sep 1919 East Preston-1986); Stephanie Evelyn (1924)

Author: 'The Mammals of Somaliland' 1910

Book Reference: Kenya Diary, EAHB 1905, North, EA & Rhodesia, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, DSO, Burke, EAHB 1904

War Service: RAMC

School: Dulwich College and St. George's Hospital and Durham University

General Information:

Kenya Diary - Oct. 1903 - Fort Hall - About 3 weeks ago Neligan developed fever. Lawson and I were the only Europeans in the station, and as Neligan got worse and worse it became clear that his attack was not ordinary malaria. Lawson and I diagnosed it as rheumatic fever ....... After the 10th day we decided to send to Nairobi for a doctor ....... After 6 days an answer came from Nairobi telling us to give him salicylic acid. Was there ever such a stupid message? Of course none of us had salicylic acid; nor if we had had, did we know how much to give him ...... On 1st October a doctor, Drake-Brockman arrived ........ But this only added to our troubles, for Drake-Brockman arrived with a bad attack of blackwater fever on him. We at once bundled him into bed ....... 15th Oct. 1903 .... as we entered Nyeri we met Hinde and Drake-Brockman returning to Fort Hall. Drake-Brockman had almost recovered from his blackwater fever and had yesterday killed 3 rhino - 2 adults and a young one ...... deliberately stalked and shot ...... pure slaughter ..... unsportsmanlike action and a breach of the game regulations.
North - Uganda Protectorate - Appt. Med Officer 26-9-1900; dep. Ravine on expedition to Suk country 9-1-1901, Kisumu at May 1901; transferred to EAP, Kisumu at July 1901 & July 1902; arr. Mombasa from Yonte 21-10-1902 invalided home blackwater fever. Sub-Commissioner Ukamba Province 1903; Appt. Dep. Supt. Nairobi Prison 15-10-1903; Five attacks of blackwater fever in two years, should be invalided home and not return to EA, Medical Report dated 10-11-1903; dep. Mombasa for England 3-12-1903.
East Africa & Rhodesia - 1/1/53 - Lieut.-Col. Ralph Evelyn Drake-Brockman, DSO, who has died in Worthing at the age of 77, joined the Uganda Medical Service in 1900 and transferred to the Somaliland Protectorate four years later. He served in the South African War, the Nandi-Suk-Turkana expedition of 1900-01, with the forces in the Somaliland Protectorate in 1904 and in 1909-10, and in the First World War from 1914 to 1919, for the last three years in France. From 1919 he was in the Ministry of Pensions for 10 years, and medical referee at the Home Office from 1929 to 1948. At the Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924-25 he was commissioner for Somaliland, and he was the author of a work on the mammals of that Protectorate.
DSO - MRCS 9Eng), LRCP, Lond., Deputy Commissioner of Medical Services, Ministry of Pensions. Capt. RAMC 1916; Lt.-Col. 1917; OC 150th and 95th Field Ambulances; retired with rank of Lieut.-Col. March 1919; served S. African War 1899-1900 (Queen's Medal, 2 clasps); Medical Officer, Foreign Office Uganda and BEA Protectorates 1900-03; Nandi and Suk-Turkana Expeditions (GAS Medal and clasp); Medical Officer, Colonial Office 1904-15; Somaliland Protectorate Expeditions against Mullah 1908-10 and 1914-15 (2 clasps GAS Medal); European War, Despatches twice.
Burke - Specialist in Tropical Diseases, Min of Pensions, served in S. African War 1899-1900 (Queen's Medal, 2 clasps), Med Offr, Foreign Office, Uganda and Brit. E. Africa Protectorates 1900-03, Nandi and Suk-Turkana Expdns (despatches), Med Offr, Colonial Office 1904-15, Somaliland 1908-10, and 1914-15, WW1 (despatches twice)
EA Diary 1903 - Medical Officer, Uganda Protectorate Sept 26 1900; transferred to East Africa Protectorate Sept 26 1900
1939 England and Wales Register living with wife and son in Worthing

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