Lt. Col. Richard John Vulliamy Marfleet Battle MBE

Order of the British Empire

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, FRCS

Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons

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, LRCP, MCh

MCH

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 Cantab, MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 Cantab, BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 Cantab, 1970 Gillies Gold Medal. (21 January 1907 – 26 May 1982) was an English plastic surgeon, President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons.

Early life

The son of William Henry Battle

William Henry Battle

William Henry Marfleet Battle was an English surgeon and teacher.Battle was born in Lincolnshire, 1855. He was educated at Haileybury School, Hertfordshire. His family: Marfleet Battle, were notable Lincolnshire and Sussex landowners....

 and Anna Marguerite (née Vulliamy), Battle was educated at Gresham's School

Gresham's School

Gresham’s School is an independent coeducational boarding school in Holt in North Norfolk, England, a member of the HMC.The school was founded in 1555 by Sir John Gresham as a free grammar school for forty boys, following King Henry VIII's dissolution of the Augustinian priory at Beeston Regis...

, Norfolk

Norfolk

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, and Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. His family Marfleet Vulliamy Battle were notable Sussex and Lincolnshire landowners.

Career

Following service as a military plastic surgeon during the Second World War for which he was awarded the MBE, Battle was appointed as Consultant Plastic Surgeon to St Thomas Hospital, London, the Westminster Hospital, London, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital(Hackney), London, which he served until his retirement from the NHS in 1972. He also had a small private practice in London. He was Honorary Consultant in Plastic Surgery to the British Army

British Army

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 from 1955 to 1971 and President of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1952 and again from 1967.

Military service

Before 1939, he was a member of the Territorial Army and served the War of 1939-1945 in the RAMC. France, 1939–40, Italy, 1943-46. Commanded No. 1 Maxillo Facial Unit and 98 General Hospital. Promoted Major, 1940, and Lieutenant-Colonel, 1945.

Publications

• Plastic Surgery (1964)
• Many contributions on plastic surgery to scientific periodicals

Professional qualifications

• 1928: Bachelor of Arts (Cantab.
  University of Cambridge
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  )
• 1931: MRCS
  Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons
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   and LRCP
• 1935: MCh
  MCH
  MCH can refer to:* Machala, Ecuador * March, in National Rail abbreviations.* March railway station, England; National Rail station code MCH.* Mean corpuscular hemoglobin or Mean cell hemoglobin* Maternal and child health...
  
   (Cantab.)
• 1933: FRCS
  Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons
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• 1935: MA (Cantab.)

Honours

• 1945: Member of the Order of the British Empire
  Order of the British Empire
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• 1970: Gillies Gold Medal

Family

Marfleet Vulliamy Battle, Richard's family, were notable Sussex and Lincolnshire landowners. Battle's grandfather was the Mayor of Lincoln. In 1941, Battle married Jessie Margaret King, and they had three sons.