Background
Gilchrist, Harry Lorenzo was born on January 16, 1870 in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. Son of Lorenzo D. and Margaret Jane (Ohl) Gilchrist.
Major general United States Army
Gilchrist, Harry Lorenzo was born on January 16, 1870 in Waterloo, Iowa, United States. Son of Lorenzo D. and Margaret Jane (Ohl) Gilchrist.
Public School; Western Reserve University, Medical Department, 1895. Army Medical School, 1903. (F.) American College Surgeons.
Contract surgeon, United States Army, 1898-1900. Assistant surgeon, United States Army, 1900-1905, captain, Medical Corps, October 3, 1905, major, January 1, 1909, lieutenant colonel, May 15, 1917, colonel, October 1, 1926, major general, March 28, 1929. Health officer, Manila, P.I., 1900-1901.
Experimented with X-ray in treatment of leprosy, 1903-1904. Commanded 1st United States expedition to Europe in World War, Lakeside Hospital Unit Northern 4. Commander British General Hospital Northern 9, Rouen, France, May-December 1917.
Medical director Chemical Warfare Service, American Expeditionary Force, December 1917-December 1918. Commander American Typhus Expedition to Poland, 1919. Chief of medical research division, Washington, District of Columbia, and Edgewood Arsenal, Chemical Warfare Service, 1921-1929.
Chief of Chemical Warfare Service, March 28, 1929-May 16, 1933. Retired January 16, 1934. Editor of The Military Surgeon, 1934-September 1940.
Member Association Military Surgns. (pres, 1933-1934; member Mexican Association Military Surgeons. Clubs: Army and Navy (Washington).
Married Mayme L. Morgan, June 30, 1909.