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Revision as of 23:29, 8 November 2012

Surgeon Vice-Admiral SIR Arthur William May, K.C.B., K.H.P., D.L., F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Royal Navy (18 June, 1854 – 20 April, 1925) was an officer of the Royal Navy.

Life & Career

On the occasion of King George V's birthday May was appointed an Ordinary Member of the Second Class, or Knight Commander, in the Military Division of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.) on 22 June, 1914.[1]

May died at Tremeer, St. Tudy, Cornwall, on 20 April, 1925, aged seventy.[2]

Footnotes

  1. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 28842. p. 4876. 22 June, 1914.
  2. "Deaths" (Deaths). The Times. Tuesday, 22 April, 1925. Issue 43942, col B, p. 1.

Bibliography

"Sir A. W. May" (Obituaries). The Times. Wednesday, 22 April, 1925. Issue 43942, col B, p. 19.

Service Records


Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Sir James Porter
Medical Director-General
1913 – 1917
Succeeded by
Sir William H. Norman