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Article: GUTHRIE WAS ONCE RESCUED FROM ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH AFTER BEING SURROUNDED BY ENEMY CAVALRY WHEN HE WAS RECOGNISED BY A FRENCH OFFICER HE HAD TREATED MEDICINE George Guthrie: Soldier and Pioneer Surgeon By Raymond Hurt ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE PRESS, pounds 24.95, 294 pp Wendy Moore on the army surgeon whose life-long fight was to raise medical standards on the battlefield
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- March 29, 2009
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When British troops landed in Portugal in August 1808 to take on
the might of Napoleon's army at the start of the Peninsular War,
their commanding officer, the future Duke of Wellington, made no
provision
for casualties. This was little deterrent to the
23-year-old army surgeon George Guthrie, who bundled his few
medical supplies into a borrowed biscuit bag, bought a mule and,
with the aid of two one-handed men whose hands he had previously
amputated, set off on the 80-mile advance on Lisbon with gusto.
In an era with no shortage of heroes and tales of derring-do,
Guthrie was a resourceful man of seemingly superhuman qualities
whose real-life adventures rival any Boy's Own story. ...
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Article: OBIT - GUTHRIE, RICHARD
Roanoke Times & World News;
April 14, 2005 ;
253 words
...Richard Guthrie, 76, of Roanoke, passed away Wednesday, April 13, 2005. He is survived by his brother, George Guthrie; and a friend, Barbara Hodges. A graveside service will be held ...
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