OBITUARY.
SIR ARTHUR SLOGGETT.
(Received November 29, 7.15 p.m.). British "Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 28. Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Sloggett, who was Director-Geneiral of Medical Services to the British Armies iri the field during the greater part of the war, dropped dead yesterday, while he was walking with his son, near .Regent's Park, London.
Sir Arthur had been suffering from heart trouble.
Sir Arthur Sloggett was born in 1857, and entered the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1881. He served on the Indian Frontier, 1884, in Dongola, 1896, in the Sudan, 1897-98, and in South Africa, 1900-03. He was Director of Medical Services in India, 1911-14. In the recent war he was several times mentioned in despatches. He was appointed DirectorGeneral of the Army Medical Service in 1914. He was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to King George in 1911. He was for some years Chief Commissioner of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and of the British Red Cross Society.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 13
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