Lieutenant-Colonel MacKintosh Alexander Thomas Collie
LRCS LRCP (Edin 1878) MB (Aber 1881)
Senior Medical Officer of Cambridge Street Hospital. Ex-Indian Army.
29 April 2013
Where is the grave?
From the crematorium car park, take the path down the hill to the left. Ignoring two paths to the left, carry on down the hill. The Collie grave is half way down on the left.
| 31 Mar 1883 Surgeon Indian Medical Service (IMS). |
| Mar 1888 Secretary to the Surgeon-General Bombay. |
| Dec 1892 Resident Surgeon to St George's Hospital Bombay, and Professor in the Grant Medical College Bombay. |
| 31 Mar 1895 Surgeon-Major Indian Medical Service (IMS). |
| Oct 1895–Dec 1902 Held various civil surgeoncies. |
| Jan 1903 Presidency Surgeon Bombay. |
| 31 Mar 1903 Lieutenant Colonel Indian Medical Service (IMS). |
| 1905 Bombay Presidency Surgeon, Third District. In medical charge of Common Prison, House of Correction, and Byculla Schools. |
| Nov 1905–1913 Physician to St George's Hospital Bombay. |
| 30 June 1913 Retired. |
| 20 Oct 1914 Rejoined for war service, serving for some time on a hospital ship. |
| 1915 Served at the Indian Hospitals at Brockenhurst, Hampshire, and later at the Pavilion, Brighton. These hospitals both specialised in the treatment of Indian troops wounded in the war. |
| In the early part of 1916 he was for some months in charge of a military hospital at Malta. He was afterwards appointed president of No. 3 recruiting medical board at Manchester. |
| Feb 1917 Contracted pneumonia while acting as president of a colliery recruiting medical board, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. |
| 3 Dec 1918 Died aged 62 years, at Barrow-in-Furness, of pneumonia following influenza. |
Sources
1. Obituary, 1918 Dec 14, British Medical Journal, 2(3024): p 667.
2. India List 1905 Officers of the Indian Medical Service 1905, pp 101-102.
3. maltaramc.com
The son of another doctor, Collie trained at Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Lieutenant Colonel Collie had a thirty year career in the Indian Army Medical Service before dying at the Victoria Park Hotel:
The North Western Daily Mail of Thursday 5 December 1918 wrote:
The North Western Daily Mail, Thursday 5 December 1918LATE COLONEL COLLIE
MILITARY FUNERAL AT BARROW
Probably one of the biggest military funerals for many years took place this morning, when the interment took place at the Borough Cemetery of the late Lieutenant Colonel M. A. Collie, a retired officer of the Indian Medical Service, who had for many months held the dual position of senior medical officer of the Barrow Garrison and officer in command of the Cambridge-street Military Hospital, and who died on Tuesday at the Victoria Park Hotel, from pneumonia.
The cortege included nearly 600 soldiers, drawn from men stationed in the locality, and embracing contingents from the South Lancs. Regiment, the Royal Garrison Artillery, the Royal Defence Corps, the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the military foot police. There were also present naval representatives, the Mayor of Barrow (Alderman A. Barrow, O.B.E.), and other members of the Corporation, the staff from the Cambridge-street Hospital, along with a party of military patients from the cadre (? Illegible).
The coffin, covered by a Union Jack, and surmounted by the deceased officer’s cap, belt, and sword, was drawn on a gun carriage to St Matthew’s Church, where the first portion of the burial service was conducted by the Rev. H. B. Wilson (vicar), assisted by the Rev. F. S. Hickin, C.F. The committal sentences were read by the Rev. C. Postlethwaite, C.F. (This probably means Christian Fellowship – author)
En route to the church and during the passage thence to the cemetery, the band of the 3rd Batt. South Lancs. Regiment played the Dead March in ‘Saul’, and at the graveside the usual volley was fired and the ‘Last post’ sounded.
Among those who were present, in addition to the relatives of the deceased officer, were: Capt. Black, R.N., Capt. Ayers, R. N., Commander Bissett (Barrow Harbour-master), and another officer from one of his Majesty’s ships; Col. G.H. Pedley, C.B. (Commander Barrow Garrison), along with the staff captain and the officers of the garrison, and Capt. Jones, R.A.M.C., representing Surgeon-General Julian, the Deputy-Director of Medical Services, Western Command.
The pall-bearers were Lieut.-Col. L. W. Herbert, D.S.O., and Lieut.-Col. A.F. Tarbet, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lieut.- Col. G. Dixon, T.D., Major J McDougall, V.D., R.G.A., Major A.H. Masterman, and Major J. Coulthard.
