Williams, Robert Parvin

  1. Williams, Robert Parvin
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1891 August 29 Born, Greencastle, Indiana 1912 1913 Intern, Ancon Hospital, Panama Canal Zone 1913 M.D., University of Cincinnati 1913 1915 Cincinnati General Hospital 1915 First Lieutenant, Medical Corps, U.S. Army 1915 1916 Student, Army Medical School 1916 1917 Adjutant, Camp Hospital, Mexican border, Douglas, Arizona 1917 1918 Assistant Divisional Surgeon 1918 Organizer and Commander, general hospital no. 34, East Norfolk, Massachusetts 1927 Honor graduate, Medical Field Service School 1928 1930 Student, Command and General Staff School 1934 1935 Army War College 1935 Chemical Warfare School 1935 1939 Instructor, Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia 1939 1940 Director, training, Medical Field Service School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania 1940 Commanding officer, First Regiment, march from Pennsylvania to California 1942 February 5 Member, General Joseph Stilwell's military mission to China and Burma 1942 May Surgeon, General, Stilwell's column, retreat from Burma to India 1944 1945 Chief surgeon, General Dan I. Sultan's India-Burma theater 1945 July 1949 Army surgeon, Fourth Army 1949 September 1949 November Special assistant to surgeon general 1949 Promoted through grades to Brigadier General 1967 November 20 Died

From the guide to the Robert Parvin Williams Papers, 1916-1951, (Hoover Institution Archives)
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