Alexander Murray Drennan

[2] He was born at 11.50pm on 4 January 1884 in Glasgow, the son of Margaret (née Murray) and Alexander Drennan (d.1906) of 16 Rocklea Terrace in Hillhead.

[citation needed] In 1914, he received a professorship at Otago University in New Zealand, but this was immediately disrupted by the onset of the First World War.

He was conscripted in 1915 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as an official pathologist at the general military hospital at Mudros serving the Dardanelles Campaign.

His proposers were Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Thomas Jones Mackie, William Alexander Bain and Philip Eggleton.

His son Alexander James Murray Drennan also trained as a doctor and served as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Second World War.