Major-General Sir Charles Max Page
KBE CB DSO (1882–1963) was a British
surgeon. He was president of the
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in 1946.
Page was commissioned
lieutenant
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The meaning of lieutenant differs in different militaries (see comparative military ranks), but it is often ...
in the
Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve
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in 1910. He reached the rank of
lieutenant-colonel
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in the
First World War
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and was awarded the
Distinguished Service Order
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in 1918. By 1943 he had reached the rank of
major-general
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and was appointed
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1945 for his services during the
Second World War
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.
In 1945 he delivered the
Bradshaw Lecture
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to the
Royal College of Surgeons
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on the subject of fracture treatment.
References
1882 births
1963 deaths
Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army generals of World War II
British Militia officers
Royal Army Medical Corps officers
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons
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