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HunterGeorge1511Attested: Jan 1898. Source: CMP 23Cape Police
HunterGeorge Crichton8443Lance CorporalSource: QSA Medal Rolls19th Company, 6th Btn, IY
HunterGeorge DouglasSurgeon MajorHUNTER, GEORGE DOUGLAS, Surgeon Major, was born 28 August 1850, second son of Brigade Surgeon George Yeates Hunter, Indian Army.  He entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1884; served in the Nile Expedition in 1884 and 1885 (Medal with clasp, and Khedive's Star); served with the Sudan Frontier Field Force in 1885-1886; in the Sudan 1888-89 (action of Gemaizah) (clasp); became Surgeon Major in 1896, and in that year served with the Dongola Expeditionary Force, taking part in the operations of 7 June and 19 September.  He was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 3 November 1896], received the British Medal and the Egyptian Medal with two clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London Gazette, 17 November 1896]: "George Douglas Hunter, Surgeon Major, Army Medical Staff.  In recognition of services in the recent operations in the Sudan".  (Insignia presented by Her Majesty 20 February 1897).  He took part in the operations of 1898, including the Battle of Khartoum (Despatches [London Gazette, 9 December 1894], clasp to Khedive's Medal, 4th Class Osmanieh).  He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1904; was Principal Medical Officer, Egyptian Army, 1905-8 (2nd Class Medjidie).  He became Colonel 15 September 1913; served in the European War from 1914; was Surgeon General, British East Africa Expeditionary Forces from December 1915; was created a CMG in 1915, and a CB in 1917, and was appointed Director of Medical Services; retired 26 December 1917 and was given the honorary rank of Major General 12 May 1918.  Major General Hunter married, in 1895, Eliza Hannah, daughter of  T W Y Robinson, of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, and they had one son and one daughter.
Source: DSO recipients (VC and DSO Book)		Army Medical Service
HunterGeorge Edmund814 PrivateDistrict Mounted Rifles
Source: Nominal roll in WO127		District Mounted Rifles
HunterGeorge P289Source: Medal rollsCanada, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles
HunterGeorge William2885PrivateSource: QSA Medal Rolls17th Company, 6th Btn, IY
HunterGilbertSource: QSA and KSA medal rollsNew Zealand, 9th Contingent
HunterGrom DEngaged locally
Source: WO100/226		Civil Surgeon
HunterH4418PrivateQSA (1).
Source: QSA medal rolls		18th (Victoria Mary, Prince of Wales's Own) Hussar
HunterH3538Private2nd Battalion
Demise: Killed in action 27 Feb 1900
Place: Tugela Heights. Pieter's Hill
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt		Royal Scots Fusiliers
HunterH1st Battalion
Source: Medal rolls		(Princess Louise's) Sutherland and Argyll Highland
HunterH 3538Private2nd Btn. Killed at Natal. 27 Feb 1900.
Source: Natal Field Force Casualty Roll, page 86 line 41		Royal Scots Fusiliers
HunterH1035 Lance CorporalSource: Nominal roll in WO127Johannesburg Mounted Rifles
HunterHC/1387CorporalFrontier Wars. SAGS (0)Army Service Corps
HunterH2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls		Royal Scots Fusiliers
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