PORTER, FREDERICK JOSEPH WILLIAM,
Captain, was born 17 April 1867, son of Captain J Porter, RA, and Mrs
Porter. He was educated for the medical profession (qualifying as Member of
the Royal College of Surgeons and Licentiate Royal College of Physicians.
He became Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, 28 July 1891. Captain Porter
served in the South African War, 1899-1902; was present at the Relief of
Kimberley; operations in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900,
including operations at Paardeberg 17 to 26 February, and actions at Poplar
Grove, Karee Siding and Zand River; operations in the Transvaal in May and
June 1900, including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria and Diamond Hill;
operations in the Transvaal, west of Pretoria, July to 29 November 1900;
operations in the Orange River Colony, May to 26 November 1900, including
action at Wittebergen; operations in the Transvaal, April 1901 to 31 May
1902; operations in Orange River Colony 30 November 1900 to March 1901, and
April 1901; operations in Cape Colony, March to April 1901. He was
mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 16 April 1901]; received the
Queen's Medal with five clasps; the King's Medal with two clasps, and was
created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 27
September 1901]: "Frederick Joseph William Porter, Captain, Royal Army
Medical Corps. In recognition of services during the operations in South
Africa". He was employed with the South African Constabulary 1 July 1901 to
28 February 1905, and was promoted to Major 28 July 1903. Major Porter
retired from the Army 22 November 1913. He was Senior Medical Officer,
Sierra Leone, and later practised as an operating surgeon in Bombay. He
married (1st), in 1891, Margaret, daughter of William Goff, and they had one
son and two daughters; and (secondly), in 1915, Katherine Margery, youngest
daughter of Henry Shaw, and they have a son.
