Major-General Sir George Joseph Hamilton Evatt KCB was a British Army officer and military doctor.
18 Facts About George Evatt
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George Evatt served overseas in the Perak War, Second Anglo-Afghan War, and Mahdist War, but was better known for his writings on military medicine and his lobbying for the creation of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
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George Evatt's father died in 1858 while on duty in Peshawar, India.
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George Evatt subsequently studied surgery with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
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George Evatt enlisted in the army in 1865, with the rank of assistant-surgeon in the 25th Regiment of Foot.
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George Evatt saw active service for the first time in the Perak War of 1875.
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George Evatt participated in the Battle of Ali Masjid, the Bazar Valley expedition, the relief of Sherpur, and the advance on Kabul, organising multiple field hospitals.
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From 1880 to 1886, George Evatt was a medical officer at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.
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George Evatt was stationed in British India from 1887 to 1891, where he was the senior medical officer at Quetta.
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George Evatt returned to England in 1892 as the chief sanitary officer at the Royal Artillery Barracks, and in 1894 was appointed secretary to the Netley Hospital.
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George Evatt was promoted to surgeon-colonel in 1896, and from then until 1899 served as the principal medical officer at Hong Kong.
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George Evatt was a member of the Liberal Party and stood unsuccessfully on three occasions for the House of Commons.
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George Evatt first ran for parliament in Woolwich at the 1886 election, where he lost to the Conservative candidate Edwin Hughes by a significant margin.
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George Evatt contested the 1906 election in Fareham and in Brighton he was at the January 1910 election; he did not come close to being elected on either occasion.
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George Evatt contributed numerous articles to the British Medical Journal, and served on the council of the British Medical Association for a period; in 1896 he was the president of the organisation's Hong Kong branch.
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George Evatt served on the committee of the International Health Exhibition of 1884.
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George Evatt's son followed him into the army, but was killed in action near Armentieres, France, in November 1914.
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George Evatt entertained two more of John's sons, Frank and Ray, while they were on leave in London during World War I; both were subsequently killed in action.