This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Surgeon-General (United Kingdom) article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
How long has this office existed? Only since 1991?
I ask because Gimlet (cocktail) tells me: "Another theory is that the drink was named after British Royal Navy Surgeon General Sir Thomas D. Gimlette, KCB (served 1879 to 1913), who allegedly introduced this drink as a means of inducing his messmates to take lime juice as an anti-scurvy medication".
Was Gimlette's office a different one with a similar name, or do we need to develop a longer list of Surgeons-General than the one we have now? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:25, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
After Walker is Major General Martin Bricknell
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-medical-services#hq-surgeon-general
"The acting Surgeon General is Major General Martin Bricknell"
Sammartinlai ( talk) 03:41, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-medical-services
"The Surgeon General is Major General Martin Bricknell"
Sammartinlai ( talk) 12:39, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
BlueD954 ( talk) 12:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Some names for earlier Surgeon-Generals (there was a sort-of-gap from 1810 to 1874):
See also here. Carcharoth ( talk) 00:24, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Surgeon-General (United Kingdom) article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
![]() | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
How long has this office existed? Only since 1991?
I ask because Gimlet (cocktail) tells me: "Another theory is that the drink was named after British Royal Navy Surgeon General Sir Thomas D. Gimlette, KCB (served 1879 to 1913), who allegedly introduced this drink as a means of inducing his messmates to take lime juice as an anti-scurvy medication".
Was Gimlette's office a different one with a similar name, or do we need to develop a longer list of Surgeons-General than the one we have now? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 20:25, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
After Walker is Major General Martin Bricknell
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-medical-services#hq-surgeon-general
"The acting Surgeon General is Major General Martin Bricknell"
Sammartinlai ( talk) 03:41, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/defence-medical-services
"The Surgeon General is Major General Martin Bricknell"
Sammartinlai ( talk) 12:39, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
BlueD954 ( talk) 12:00, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
Some names for earlier Surgeon-Generals (there was a sort-of-gap from 1810 to 1874):
See also here. Carcharoth ( talk) 00:24, 31 December 2022 (UTC)