Lieutenant Colonel Alexander SILCOCK. BA. M.D, B Ch, MROPI. Indian Medical Service.
Born 22 September 1856 to John and Christiana Silcock of Drummatticonnor County Down.
Irish 1901 family not found
Irish 1911 census. With his wife, Kathleen and two sons at 1 Lisnasharragh, Castlereagh, County Down. Occupation aged 54, Lieutenant Colonel, India Medical Service. Surgeon 2 April 1881, Lieutenant Colonel 2 April 1901. Remarks, Offg. Civil, Raipur.
At rest in Christ Church Churchyard, Kilmore County Down, Northern Ireland.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2122328/pdf/brmedj06035-0044e.pdf
The Services DEATHS IN THE SERVICES Lieut.-Colonel Alexander Silcock, Bengal Medical Service (ret.), died at Belfast on January 17th, 1936 aged 79. He was born on September 22nd, 1856, of an old-established Countv Down family, and was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A., M.B., and B.Ch. in 1880, gaining a gold medal for Greek, and M.D. in 1892. He also studied for a time at University College, London, and took the D.P.H. at Cambridge in 1893. Entering the I.M.S. as surgeon on April 2nd, 1881, he became lieutenant-colonel after twenty years' service, and retired, with an extra compensation pension, on March 25th, 1909. After retirement he settled in County Down, and during the war of 1914-18 served as a member of the Pensions Board in Northern Ireland. After the usual two years of military duty he entered civil employ in the Central Provinces, and served as civil surgeon at B3ilaspur, Nagpur, Raipur, and Jubbulpore successively. During his service he had the misfortune to be bitten by a rabid jackal, for whicti he successfully received treatment at the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli; and he also contracted plague while serving in an epidemic of that disease. In 1890 he married Kathleen, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel H. G. Saunders of the Bengal Staff Corps; she predeceased. him three years ago. Three young sons died in India, a fourth son is now in dermatological practice in Leicester, and a daughter, resident in Ireland, also survives him. He joined the British Medical Association in 1888.
London Gazette dated 30 August 1881
India Office, 30th August, 1881.
THE following Admissions to the Indian Medical Service have been approved by Her Majesty to be
Surgeons dated 2nd April, 1881. Madras Alexander Silcock and others.
London Gazette dated 27 June 1893.
Surgeon-Captains to be Surgeon-Majors. Dated
2nd April, 1893. Alexander Silcock and six others.
London Gazette date 18 June 1901.
INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.
He was promoted from Major to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated 2nd April, 1901. BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT.
London Gazette dated 16 July 1909. Retired from the Indian Medical Service 25 March 1909.
