Kenneth Tallerman

Captain Kenneth Harry Tallerman, MC was an English officer of the British Army who served during the First and Second World Wars. In later life, Tallerman was a leading paediatrician.
He was born on 3 November 1894, in Kensington, the son of Phineas, a stock broker by profession, and Josephine Rebecca Tallerman (née Wolf), of London and New York, respectively. Tallerman studied at Charterhouse before entering Cambridge as a medical student.Kenneth Harry Tallerman, munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
After the First World War began, Tallerman volunteered for the Friends' Ambulance Unit. He served with them until September 1915, when he left to join the British Army. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery some months later, dated to the 6th of October.The London Gazette (29321), p. 9999. 9 October 1915, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018. In 1917, while serving on the Western Front, Tallerman was awarded the Military Cross. His citation, published in the London Gazette on 20 July 1917, reads:For conspicuous gallantry and devotion during operations. Although wounded and suffering from shock, he took command of the battery on all the officers becoming casualties, and handled it with great skill and courage under most trying conditions.The London Gazette (13116), p. 1418. 20 July 1917, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018.Tallerman resigned from the army on 7 April 1920, and retained the rank of lieutenant.The London Gazette (31852), p. 4201. 6 April 1920, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018 He resumed his medical studies, going on to obtain the conjoint diploma in 1921, and graduating the subsequent year. For a number of years, Tallerman worked at St Thomas's Hospital, in London. Tallerman devoted the rest of his career to paediatrics. He spent two years in America at the Institute of Paediatrics, Washington, and, on returning to Britain, worked as a physician at the Hospital for Sick Children. Tallerman went on to hold a number of medical appointments throughout London, but spent much of his life at the London Hospital. He first found employment there in 1926 as a registrarship.
With the outbreak of the Second World War, Tallerman rejoined the British Army, this time as an officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returned to London in 1944, leaving the army due to ill-health with the honorary rank of lieutenant-colonel.The London Gazette (36711), p. 4375. 22 September 1944, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018. Back in civilian life, Tallerman became head of the children's department. He acted as president of the paediatrics section of the Royal Society of Medicine for a year from 1950, and was elected to be head of the British Paediatric Association in 1957.
Tallerman married Alice Rose, a consultant anaesthetist, in 1929. After her death in 1960, he remarried, to Florence Keeble, with whom he lived in retirement in the Essex countryside. Tallerman died on 25 October 1981.
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