Major-General John Simson Stuart Martin CSI (18 June 1888 – 24 December 1973) was a Scottish doctor in the Indian Medical Service.‘MARTIN, Maj.-Gen. John Simson Stuart’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 25 April 2014 He served during both World Wars.
Born in Stornoway, he was educated at Oban High School, Rockhampton Grammar School (Queensland) and the University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service in 1912. He served in Mesopotamia from November 1914 until April 1916, when he was taken prisoner by the Turks at the fall of Kut.Jan 1941 Indian Army List war services supplement He was mentioned in despatches in 1916. By the time of the start of the Second World War, he was a Colonel, and was further promoted to substantive Major-General on 6 March 1943, retiring on 6 March 1945.London Gazette, 30 April 1943, page 1963London Gazette, 23 March 1945, page 1606
He latterly lived at Glendale, on the Isle of Skye. He died at Gesto Hospital on the island.Deaths. The Times (London, England), Saturday, 29 December 1973; pg. 20; Issue 58975. (2651 words)
His daughter Lorna is married to immunologist Avrion Mitchison.
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