Captain Charles Pattison was transferred from the Medical Officers’ pool to 6th Brigade at RAF Base Throwley in Kent. He was in despatches for “valuable service in connection with the war”. I have no details as to whose despatches he was mentioned in or the Gazette listing.
His birth in County Cork in Ireland in 1879 the son of Rev. Robert Pattison
He was educated at Queens College, Cork graduating in 1902
He married Ethel Maud Acton at the Strand, Middlesex in March 1910
He joined the R.A.M.C. and was attached to 11th Casualty Clearing Station of 1st Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment.
He was at Gallipoli in October 1915
His wife, Ethel Pattison was also serving in the Voluntary Aid Detachment/British Red Cross
Dr. Pattison was on KI for seven years from 1930 until his death in 1937
Charles Richard Maitland PATTISON was born in Co. Cork in 1879.
The London Gazette of 5 November 1915 has him to be a temporary Lieutenant dated 1st August 1915. I am assuming this was the date of his enlistment in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
He was attached to 11th Casualty Clearing Station, 1st Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment. The battalion arrived at Mudros Harbour on Lemnos Island on 3 September 1915 and served on Gallipoli before moving on to Egypt in February, 1916
On 10 June 1918 he was commissioned as Captain with 112 Squadron R.A.F. based at Throwley in Kent. The squadron flew Sopwith Pups, Camels and Snipes, defending London and the Thames estuary. The squadron was disbanded on 13 June 1919.
He was discharged with the rank of Major and qualified for the 1915 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. His obituary states that he was twice mentioned in despatches.
He died in Kingscote on 7 November 1937 after having spent seven years on KI as the resident medical officer.
- Chris Ward
Click on the pdf file attached to this page to examine his service records.