Lieutenant-Colonel Reginald de Lotbinier Harwood
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Harwood,
Reginald de Lotbinier
Date of birth: 1872-03-27
Place of birth: Vaudreuil Quebec Canada
Next of kin: Matilda Helen MacDonald; 466 Guy St., Montreal, Quebec
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): surgeon
Occupation (normalized): General Surgeon
Religion: Roman Catholic
Date of death:
1952-01-20
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank:
Lieutenant-Colonel
Rank detail
- Lieutenant-Colonel (Army). 1918-11-14 ?
- Lieutenant-Colonel, 51st Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1916-04-19 to 1916-07-10
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: yes
RESEARCH INFORMATION
LAC ID:
449674
Attestation record(s): image 1
Service file: B4142-S034
Uploader's Notes:
Original commanding officer of the 51st Battalion CEF. Obituary follows:
DR. REGINALD DE LOTBINIERE-HARWOOD, 83, died in Veterans' Hospital, Victoria, on January 20, after an illness of several months. A leading specialist in general surgery, he had practised in Vancouver for 20 years. Dr. de Lotbinirere-Harwood was born at Vaudreuil, Que., and was the son of a distinguished Canadian statesman, the Hon. Robert W. Harwood, and the greatgrandson of the Marquis de Lotbiniere who as a boy took part in the Battle of Quebec. He was educated at St. Laurent College, Quebec, and McGill University, from which he graduated in 1894. After a period as house surgeon in Chicago, he went just before the turn of the century to Pincher Creek, Alta., where he practised for some years. In 1914, after postgraduate study in Paris and London, he set up a surgical practice in Edmonton. At that time a major in the 101st Edmonton Battalion, Dr. de Lotbiniere-Harwood recruited and trained a new regiment, the 51st Edmonton Battalion, which he led into action at the front. Transferred when the battalion was broken up in 1915, he took charge of No. 8 Canadian General Hospital at St. Cloud, an 1,800- bed hospital with 900 gas cases. In recognition of his work he became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour of France and was awarded the Order of the White Elephant of Siam. After the war Dr. de Lotbiniere-Harwood moved from Edmonton to Vancouver, where he practised until the outbreak of World War II, when he took charge of the Chemainus General Hospital, on Vancouver Island. He resumed his surgery practice in cCliemainus in 1945, continuing in it until his retirement last July. He is survived by a son.
Uploader's Research notes: obituary from the Canadian M A Journal March 1, 1955 volume 72 [Lieutenant-Colonel Army Canadian Infantry 51st Battalion Lieutenant-Colonel Army Canadian Army Medical Corps 8th Canadian General Hospital ]
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