Major-General Sir Samuel Guise Guise-Moores, (24 December 1863 – 3 October 1942) was a senior

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officer of the

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who also served as

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Military career

Moores commissioned into the

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as surgeon-captain on 1 February 1890, and served in the Chitral Relief Expedition in 1895, in medical charge of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders and No. 8 Mountain Battery

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. He served in the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

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(1899–1902), attached to the Scots Guards taking part in the

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, and was present at the battles of

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, Enslin and

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(November 1899), where he was wounded. For his service, he was promoted to surgeon-major on 29 November 1900, and twice

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. Following the end of the war, Moores left

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for England on the ''SS Simla'' in July 1902. He served in France throughout the First World War running various hospitals before being appointed Director of Medical Services for the Second Army in April 1918, and later the same post for the Army of Occupation in Germany. He had responsibility for medical services at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Guise-Moores was Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps between 1927 and 1933. Guise-Moores was made a Knight of Grace of the Order of Saint John and a

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in 1925. He was made

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in the

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References

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