Hother McCormack Hanschell

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Hother McCormack Hanschell (also: Hother McCormick Hanschell , * 1880 in Bridgetown , Barbados , † December 2, 1968 in Oxford ) was a British medic and accompanied the Tanganyika expedition under Geoffrey Basil Spicer Simson during the First World War .

Life

Hanschell was the son of the founder of a trading company in Barbados and was sent to England for his training, where he first attended Malvern College and graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1907 . He then returned to Barbados and worked as a port doctor in Bridgetown before traveling back to London in 1908 and continuing his scientific career. From 1911 he was senior lecturer at the London School of Tropical Medicine. He was one of a commission, which is 1913-14 with the yellow fever employed on the Gold Coast, and served during the First World War in the Royal Navy . From 1915 to 1917 he accompanied the Tanganyika expedition as a medical officer, which was supposed to transport the two boats HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou to Lake Tanganyika and render the German fleet harmless there. For this service he received the Distinguished Service Cross . In 1919 he was demobilized, from 1920 to 1950 he worked at Connaught Hospital , later the Albert Dock Hospital. There he headed the emergency service during the Second World War .

Hanschell was Vice President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and President of the Medical Society for the Study of Veneral Diseases. He also played an important role in the Seamen's Hospital Society. Hanschell's research areas included pseudo-syphilis and lymphogranuloma venereum , for which he developed a skin test.

Hanschell spent his old age in Oxford. Shortly before his death, he was interviewed by naval historian Peter Shankland . These conversations formed an important source for Shankland's work The Phantom Flotilla . The doctor is also one of the main characters in the books The True Story of the African Queen by Giles Foden and A Matter of Time by Alex Capus .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Older sources, such as the London Gazette or the Fleet Annual and Naval Yearbook, give the second name as McCormack, while more recent sources such as the obituary for Hanschell or Giles Foden's novel write McCormick .
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 29886, HMSO, London, January 1, 1917, p. 10 ( PDF , accessed October 2, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/fleetannualnaval00coveuoft#page/134/mode/2up/search/hanschell
  4. ^ Giles Foden, The true story of the African Queen , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16837-8 , p. 36
personal data
SURNAME Hanschell, Hother McCormack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanschell, Hother McCormick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British medic
DATE OF BIRTH 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Bridgetown , Barbados
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1968
Place of death Oxford