Lt-Col Desmond Rantzen Hanbury, IMS (1913-1996)

Official correspondence and documentation, 1941-48, and folder of Malaria Survey of Iran and Iraq, 1942/3, maps, with notes.

1938-1948

4 files

These papers were received from P D Hanbury via Brigadier W Woodburn in November 2011

Desmond Rantzen Hanbury joined the Indian Medical Service in 1938 and served until August 1947, when the IMS was dissolved as a result of Indian Independence. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. During World War II he served with PAIFORCE in Iraq and Iran and was involved with the Malaria Survey. He subsequently went into general practice in Sussex.

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