Thomas Carey Evans

Major Sir Thomas John Carey Evans MC FRCS (6 June 1884 – 25 August 1947) was a Welsh surgeon who served as a doctor in the British army in India and as the first inspector of the British Postgraduate Medical School, when the school was founded at Hammersmith Hospital, London.

He was involved in a battle at Abor on the North East border of India between 1911 and 1912, winning the Indian General Service Medal.

He served as medical officer to the Mishin campaign, which explored the Tibetan border and mapped the upper course of the Brahmaputra river.

[1][6] During the First World War he served with the Indian Army at Gallipoli, in Egypt, and in Mesopotamia, where he was a civil medical officer in Baghdad in 1917.

[3] After returning from India he worked as a doctor in London serving as a consultant surgeon at St Paul's Hospital for sexually transmitted diseases.