Williams, Robert Parvin

Biography Note

• 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)