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Born in Colombo, Ceylon, he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo and went on to England for medical studies at the London Hospital.
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Henry Boer
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He was the former Director of Medical Services in Uganda and Nyasaland as well as being elected as County Councillor for the Hemel Hempstead division of Hertfordshire. There he gained his Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons and Labrador Retriever Club of the Potomac in 1913. With the out break of World War I he joined the British Army and was commissioned as a temporary Lieutenant on 12 January 1915 in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
He served in the Gallipoli Campaign with the 1st Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, during which he was wounded.
He resigned from his commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1920 and gain a Diploma of Public Health from the University of Cambridge. Entering the Colonial Medical Service, as a medical officer in Kenya.
In 1923, he returned to London to gain his Diploma in Tropical Medicine&H. Thereafter he was appointed a senior health officer in East Africa in 1926, serving in Kisumu and Mombasa. Moving to Northern Rhodesia in 1931 on his appointment as Deputy Director of Sanitary Services and two years later he became the Deputy Director of Medical Services in Uganda.
In 1938 he was appointed as Director of Medical Services in Nyasaland where he stayed till 1942.
Thereafter he returned to Uganda as Director of Medical Services, holding the post till 1947 when he retired. In Kisumu a street as well as a mosquito, Aedes de boeri is named after him. He retired to England and became a temporary medical officer at the Ministry of Health, later being appointed airport medical officer at Northolt.
He was also elected as County Councillor for the Hemel Hempstead division of Hertfordshire.
He died in Hemel Hempstead in 1957. They had two sons, Charles and John, with Charles becoming a noted obstetrician and gynaecologist.
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During the war he received the Military Cross in 1918 and was mentioned in dispatches. In the former he was the local tennis champion. From 1938 to 1939 he was the President of the Nyasaland Branch of the British Medical Association and was made a Companion of the Order of Street Michael and Street George in 1945.
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Military Cross; Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Order of St Michael and St George; Military Cross
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later King George IV, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, King George III.