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| name = Harold Percy Waller Barrow
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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Harold Percy Waller Barrow''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB|CMG|OBE|DSO}} (30 June 1876 – 20 December 1957) was Colonel Commandant, [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] (1941–46) and an Honorary Surgeon to King [[George V]].<ref name="auto2">Obituary, ''Maj.Gen.H.P.W. Barrow'', ''[[The Times]]'', 23 December 1957, p.8</ref><ref name="auto">{{Cite book|title=''[[Bedford Modern School]] Of The Black & Red''|work=worldcat.org|isbn=9780950760803|year=1981|oclc = 16558393|last1=Underwood|first1=Andrew}}</ref><ref name="ramc-ww1.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.ramc-ww1.com/profile.php?cPath=211_655&profile_id=9982&osCsid=29|title=RAMC: Royal Army Medical Corps WW1|work=ramc-ww1.com}}</ref>

==Life==
Harold Percy Waller Barrow was born in [[Madras Presidency]], [[India]] on 30 June 1876.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-234470|title=Barrow, Major-General Harold Percy Waller, (30 June 1876–20 Dec. 1957), RAMC; Colonel Commandant, 1941–46|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U234470|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref><ref>1911 England Census</ref> He was the son of an Army Surgeon, Henry John Waller Barrow, and Florence Ellie Macdonald.<ref name="ramc-ww1.com"/> Barrow was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]]<ref name="auto"/> and [[Guy's Hospital]], London.<ref name="auto1"/>

Barrow joined the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] from Guy's in 1898.<ref name="auto2"/> He served in the [[Second Boer War|South African War]], [[World War I]], and the [[Third Anglo-Afghan War]] in 1919.<ref name="auto2"/>

In 1919 he was appointed Director of Hygiene and Pathology in [[India]] and later Director of Hygiene at the [[War Office]] between 1924 and 1930.<ref name="auto2"/> In 1926 he was appointed an honorary surgeon to [[George V|King George V]].<ref name="auto2"/> After his retirement he was sent to [[Antigua]] as health officer and he was a member of the Federal Executive Council of the Leeward Islands from 1930 until 1933. From 1941 to 1946 he served as Colonel Commandant, [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and from 1943 to 1952 he was a commissioner of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]].<ref name="auto2"/>

Barrow died in [[Hampshire]], [[England]] on 20 December 1957.<ref>England & Wales, National Probate Calendar, (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp66999/harold-percy-waller-barrow Harold Percy Waller Barrow at the National Portrait Gallery]

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