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Robert Porter (British Army officer)
Major-General Sir Robert Porter KCB CMG (31 January 1858 – 27 February 1928) was a British Army officer and physician.[1][2] Early life and careerPorter was born in County Donegal, Ireland, the son of Andrew Porter.[2] He was educated at Foyle College, Derry, and the University of Glasgow, from which he graduated Bachelor of Medicine (MB).[2] He was commissioned a surgeon in the Army Medical Department (later the Royal Army Medical Corps) on 5 February 1881.[3] He was promoted surgeon-major on 5 February 1893.[4] He served in the Fourth Anglo-Ashanti War of 1895–1896 and the Second Boer War of 1899–1902,[2] returning from South Africa on the SS Kinfauns Castle in December 1902.[5] He was promoted lieutenant-colonel while in South Africa on 4 February 1901,[6] and colonel on 14 January 1910.[7] He was placed on half-pay on 14 January 1914,[8] but was restored to the establishment on 5 August 1914,[9] the day after the outbreak of the First World War. First World WarDuring the First World War, Porter was mentioned in despatches six times.[2] He was promoted to the temporary rank of surgeon-general on 2 November 1914,[10] and from 1915 to 1917 he served as director of medical services of the Second Army.[2][1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1916 Birthday Honours.[11] Belgium also appointed him Commander of the Order of the Crown in 1916[12] and awarded him the Croix de Guerre in 1918,[13] as he had spent much of his wartime service in Belgium and had been responsible for dealing with the 1914–1915 civilian typhoid epidemic in the Second Army area.[14] He retired on 31 January 1918.[15] The rank of surgeon-general was redesignated major-general later in 1918.[16] He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1919 Birthday Honours[17] and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1921 New Year Honours.[18] Personal lifePorter married Mary Phillipa Johnstone in 1903; they had three sons.[2] From August to December 1926, he led a party of schoolboys on a tour of Australia.[19] He died from pneumonia and pleurisy at his home at 27 The Avenue,[20] Beckenham, Kent, at the age of 70.[1] Footnotes
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