DELAP, GEORGE
GOSLETT, Lieutenant, was born at Dungrow Rectory, County Donegal, 13 April,
1873, son of Canon Alexander Delap of Valencia Island, County Kerry, and Mrs
Delap. He was educated at Rathmines School, and at the Royal College of
Surgeons Dublin (LRCPI, LRCSI), and entered the Army as a Lieutenant in the
Royal Army Medical Corps 27 July 1899. He served in South Africa from 1899 to
1902, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for
attending wounded under fire at the Battle of Magersfontein [London Gazette,
27 September 1901]: "George Goslett Delap Lieutenant, Royal Army Medical
Corps. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa". He
was mentioned in Despatches by Lord Methuen after Magersfontein and by Lord
Roberts after Paardeberg, also serving in the actions at Karee Siding, Vet and
Zand Rivers; operations in the Transvaal, including actions near Johannesburg,
Pretoria and Diamond Hill, and later in the action at Reit Vie, and operations
in Orange River Colony and Cape Colony. He received the Queen's Medal with
four clasps - for the Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg and
Diamond Hill - and the King's Medal with two clasps. He became Captain 27
July 1902, and was Assistant Instructor at the RAMC School of Instruction,
June 1908 to June 1912, obtaining his Majority 27 April 1914. Major Delap
commanded the New Army Training Centre, Llandrindod Wells, 9 December 1914 to
9 October 1915 and became Lieutenant Colonel 1 May 1915. He served in the
European War for three months at Salonika as DADMS and DDMS, L of C, 11
November 1915 to 8 January 1916; with Travelling War Office Board, in command,
to 17 April 1916; mobilized with the 33rd General Hospital; arrive at Basra,
Mesopotamia, 11 June, 1916; in command of 33rd General Hospital till 30 April
1917; appointed ADMS, Cavalry Division in Mesopotamia, 29 April, 1917 (to 7
April, 1918); Temporary Colonel 13 May 1917 to 7 April 1918; ADMS, L of C,
Mesopotamia, from 27 August 1918: He had the Royal Humane Society's Bronze
Medal for saving life. He married, in 1912, Mary Dorothy, youngest daughter
of Surgeon General W J Fawcett, CB, AMS, and they had a son, Peter, born 11
May 1913, and a daughter, Kathleen Mary.
