[1] In 1913, Dalziel gave the Dr James Watson lecture for the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, with a title of Some practical points in abdominal surgery.

[3] For much of his life, Dalziel volunteered, initially in his home county of Dumfriesshire but later in a military capacity working at the Royal Engineers in the Clyde submarine division.

[3] When the first world war broke out, Dalziel and his unit wee mobilised to the Royal Army Medical Corps and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-colonel.

[8] In a child of 10 he found a great thickening of the bowel wall and in a description of the pathology described it as having the consistence and smoothness of an eel in a state of rigor mortis.

[8] Dalziel described common symptoms in all the cases, that were characteristic feature being violent colic that caused vomiting and occasionally an escape of some blood, also constant mucus from the bowel.

[9] For his services during World War I to the Advisory Council of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Dalziel was knighted by King George V.[10]