Joseph Crowdy

Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy CB (born 19 November 1923) is a retired English soldier and military doctor, a former Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Background and education
The son of Lt-Col. Charles R. Crowdy and his wife Kate Porter, Crowdy was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk (1933-1942), and the University of Edinburgh (1942-1947). He took the degrees of MB and BCh in 1947, and later a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (1956), Diploma in Public Health and Diploma in Industrial Health (both 1957).

Career summary

 * House surgeon, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, 1947-1948
 * Joined Royal Army Medical Corps, 1949
 * Served in North Africa, 1952-1955
 * Served in Singapore, 1960-1962
 * Head of Applied Physiology, Army Personnel Research Establishment, 1963-1973
 * Professor of Army Health, Royal Army Medical College, 1973-1976
 * Senior Medical Officer, Land Forces Cyprus, 1976-1978
 * Director of Army Preventative Medicine, 1978-1981
 * Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1985-1988

Publications

 * Editor, Royal Army Medical Corps Journal, 1978-1983

Family
In 1948, Crowdy married Beryl Elisabeth Sapsford (died 1997), and they had four daughters.

Honours and appointments

 * Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, 1974
 * Member, Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 1981
 * Fellow, Royal Institute of Public Health, 1982
 * Honorary Physician to the Queen, 1981-1984
 * Companion of the Order of the Bath, 1984