Lt Col Robert Caldwell^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]}

1859 - 1918  (58 years)

• Name	Robert Caldwell  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Prefix	Lt Col
  Birth	30 Oct 1859	New York, USA   [3, 4, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Apr 1918	Babbacombe, Devon, England   [5]
  Person ID	I2567	DBH Twigs
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Robert Caldwell,   b. Est 1825
  Family ID	F7647	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Caroline Hungerford,   b. 19 Oct 1868, Newcastle, Jamaica d. Feb 1950 (Age 81 years)  [1, 9]
  Marriage	13 Feb 1890	Hammersmith, London, England   [3, 6]
  		Mary Caroline Hungerford & Robert Caldwell - marriage Media Date: 13 FEB 1890 Keywords: Picture
  		Mary Caroline Hungerford & Robert Caldwell - marriage Media Date: 13 FEB 1890 Keywords: Picture
  		Hammersmith - St John the Evangelist Church Keywords: Church
  		Hammersmith - St John the Evangelist Church Keywords: Church
  Children	1. Robert Hungerford Caldwell,   b. 1891, Hammersmith, London, England d. 1891, Barbados, West Indies (Age 0 years)   2. Richard Hungerford Caldwell, DSC,   b. 27 Aug 1892, Chiswick, London, England d. 21 Mar 1945, Easebourne, Sussex, England (Age 52 years)   3. Grant Hungerford Caldwell,   b. 1913   d. 7 May 1919, Newton Abbot, Devon, England (Age 6 years)
  Family ID	F915	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2026

  
  

• Photos » Slide Show		Hammersmith - St John the Evangelist Church Keywords: Church
  		Hammersmith - St John the Evangelist Church Keywords: Church
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  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  		Mary Caroline Hungerford & Robert Caldwell - marriage Media Date: 13 FEB 1890 Keywords: Picture
  		Mary Caroline Hungerford & Robert Caldwell - marriage Media Date: 13 FEB 1890 Keywords: Picture
  		Robert Caldwell - 1911 Census Media Date: 1911 Keywords: Picture
  		Robert Caldwell - 1911 Census Media Date: 1911 Keywords: Picture
  		Royal Army Medical Corps Keywords: Picture
  		Royal Army Medical Corps Keywords: Picture
  		Roberts Heights - Military Hospital, Pretoria Keywords: Picture
  		Roberts Heights - Military Hospital, Pretoria Keywords: Picture
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• Notes

  Robert Caldwell was a prisoner of war for some time and served in South Africa during the wars there. Dilys Hungerford is in possession of a letter sent to Robert by his father-in-law, so presumably he was eventually accepted into the family despite their earlier reservations. COLONEL ROBERT CALDWELL, Army-Medical-Staff (retired), died in a nursing home at Babbacombe, Devonshire, on April 4th, aged 59. He was the younger son of Robert Caldwell of Charleston, South Carolina, and was born in New York on October 30th, 1859. He was educated at the Westminster Hospital and took the diplomas of M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.Edin. in 1883, also subsequently the F.R.C.S. Eng. in 1890, and the D.P.H. of the Scottish Colleges in 1901. After filling the post of assistant house-surgeon of Westminster Hospital, he entered the R.A.M.C. as surgeon June 1885, and became Colonel in 1917. He served in the Sudan campaign of 1885-86, in the Frontier Field Force, receiving the medal and Khedive's bronze star; and in the South African war of 1899-1902, gaining the King's and Queen's medals; and had also gained the Royal Humane Society's medal. While in the army he devoted himself chiefly to sanitary work, and had held charge of the district laboratories at Meerut and Aldershot. He gained the Parkes Memorial Prize in 1904 with an essay subsequently published on the Prevention of Disease in Armies in the Field, and edited the- second edition of Military Hygiene in 1910. Caldwell, Robert (1859 - 1919) MRCS July 23rd 1883; FRCS Dec 11th 1890; LRCP Lond, DPH Roy Coll Phys and Surg Edin and Glasgow 1901. General surgeon Born: 30 October 1859 New York, USA. Died: 4 April 1919 Babbacombe, Devon. Born in New York on Oct 30th, 1859, the younger son of Robert Caldwell, of Charleston, South Carolina. A relative, Charles Caldwell (d.1849), was a distinguished USA Army Surgeon and Professor of Natural History at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied Medicine at Westminster Hospital and acted as Assistant House Surgeon. He joined the RAMC as Surgeon on Jan 31st, 1885, and was promoted Surgeon Major on Jan 31st, 1899; Lieutenant-Colonel on Jan 31st, 1905, and Colonel on Jan 1st, 1917. He served with the Frontier Field Force in the Sudan campaign in 1885-1886, and received the Khedive’s Bronze Star. For his service in the South African War, 1899-1902, he was awarded the Queen’s and King’s Medals, as well as the Royal Humane Society’s Medal. He was next engaged in sanitary work, and was placed in charge of the Laboratories first at Meerut and afterwards at Aldershot, and was appointed the specialist sanitary officer to the Western Area at Devonport. He had retired when, during the War 1914-1919, he was put in charge of the Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, and the affiliated VAD establishments. He died in a Nursing Home at Babbacombe, Devon, on April 4th, 1919. Publications: “Prevention of Disease in Armies in the Field,” Parkes Memorial Prize Essay, London, 1904; New York, 1905. Military Hygiene, London and New York, 1905; 2nd ed., 1910. “Soil Pollution and Disease in Camps.” – Brit. Med. Jour., 1903, i, 248. “Refuse Disposal in Camps.” – Jour. State Med., 1903, ii, 384. “Causation of Enteric Fever apart from Water Supply.” – Public Health, London, 1903-4, xvi, 84. “Enteric Fever during Active Service.” – Brit. Med. Jour., 1907, ii, 513. “Infant Mortality and Parliamentary Legislation.” – Med. Press and Circ., 1908, lxxxvi, 251. Other communications on sanitation. Sources used to compile this entry: [Brit. Med. Jour., 1919, i, 533, 594. Johnston’s R.A.M.C. Roll, No. 7026].

  
  

• Sources

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