Charles Huxtable

Charles Reginald Ralston Huxtable MC & Bar (30 September 1891–29 July 1980) was an Australian doctor who served in both World Wars and wrote about his experiences in the book From the Somme to Singapore: a Medical Officer in Two World Wars. Huxtable was commissioned a Temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in April 1915. He won the Military Cross in June 1917 and a bar in November 1917 whilst serving as a medical officer with the Lancashire Fusiliers during World War I. He resigned his commission as a Captain in April 1918. During World War II he was captured in Singapore by the Japanese and imprisoned in Changi Prison. From the Somme to Singapore: A Medical Officer in Two World Wars, Charles Huxtable, Kangaroo Press, 1987...