Air Vice-Marshal D'Arcy Power (2 June 1889 – 26 December 1958) was a British surgeon and

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officer. He was the son of

Sir D'Arcy Power Sir D'Arcy Power, (11 November 1855 in Pimlico, London - 18 May 1941) was a British surgeon, medical historian, and contributor of some 200 articles on famous surgeons and other related figures to the ''Dictionary of National Biography''. Med ...

, also a surgeon.

Army service

Power followed his father into part-time service in the RAMC in 1911, and during the First World War became a captain and won the

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Royal Air Force service

He transferred to the Medical Branch of the

on the formation of the new service on 1 April 1918—taking a permanent commission as a

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in 1920—and ultimately reaching the rank of acting

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by 1945 when he was appointed

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Personal life

Power was a Freemason, and served as Master of the Lodge of Assistance No 2773 (London) from 1949 to 1950.Lodge of Assistanc
List of Masters

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Power, Darcy 1889 births 1958 deaths Royal Air Force officers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Recipients of the Military Cross Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England