PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Tom Scotland was educated at Waid Academy, Anstruther and at the University of Edinburgh. He studied Medicine, graduating in 1971, and pursued a career in surgery. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1975 and was appointed Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, NHS Grampian and Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen in 1983, at which time he became a member of the Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society, co-founded in 1789 by James McGrigor. Since retiring from the NHS in 2007, he has pursued his interest in military surgical history and has delivered lectures at national and international meetings. He has co-edited a book War Surgery 1914-18, and has co-authored four further works, Wars, Pestilence and the Surgeon`s Blade, Understanding the Somme 1916: An Illuminating Battlefield Guide, Understanding the Ypres Salient: An Illuminating Battlefield Guide and Henry Gray, Surgeon of the Great War, Saving Lives in a Theatre of Destruction. His most recent work A Time to Die and a Time to Live: Disaster to Triumph, deals with ground-breaking developments which impacted on war surgery and greatly improved the outcome for wounded soldiers in the First World War.
This excellent book may encourage them [modellers] to devise campaign systems that better reflect the importance of providing good medical care. * Miniature Wargames - Arthur Harman *
