Joseph Crowdy

Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy, CB, FRIPH (19 November 1923 – 28 June 2009) was a British soldier and military doctor, and Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Background and education
The son of Lt-Col. Charles R. Crowdy and his wife, Kate (née Porter), Joseph 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, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in 1956 and finally Diplomas in Public Health and Diploma in Industrial Health both in 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); 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