Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy, CB

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, FRIPH

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(19 November 1923 - 28 June 2009) was a British

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 soldier and military doctor, and Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps

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Background and education

The son of Lt-Col. Charles R. Crowdy and his wife, Kate (née Porter), Joseph Porter Crowdy was educated at Gresham's School

Gresham's School

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, Holt, Norfolk

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 (1933–1942), and the University of Edinburgh

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 (1942–1947). He took the degrees of MB and BCh in 1947, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 1956 and finally Diplomas in Public Health and Diploma in Industrial Health both in 1957.

Career summary

• House surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 1947–1948
• Joined Royal Army Medical Corps
  Royal Army Medical Corps
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  , 1949
• Served in North Africa, 1952–1955
• Served in Singapore
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  , 1960–1962
• Head of Applied Physiology, Army Personnel Research Establishment, 1963–1973
• Professor of Army Health, Royal Army Medical College, 1973–1976
• Senior Medical Officer, Land Forces Cyprus
  Cyprus
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  , 1976–1978
• Director of Army Preventative Medicine, 1978–1981
• Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps
  Royal Army Medical Corps
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  , 1985–1988

Honours and appointments

• Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 1974
• Member, Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 1981
• Fellow, Royal Institute of Public Health
  Royal Institute of Public Health
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  , 1982
• Honorary Physician to the Queen, 1981–1984
• Companion of the Order of the Bath
  Order of the Bath
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  , 1984

External links

• Major-General Joe Crowdy - Daily Telegraph obituary