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my, Zoology (winning the Grant Silver Medal) and Physiology (winning the Sharpey Gold Medal).
short breaks from his studies, William would return to Stratford and spend time hunting with his father,
he bagged birds for dissection and taxidermy. When back in London, he visited Leadenhall Market to
se birds for the same tasks. William spent his longer holidays on walking holidays through Wales, the
District, the Wye Valley and parts of Western Europe with his younger brother Edgar or friends. On
ours, William would write letters to his family and made numerous sketches of scenes, buildings or
that he found interesting.
m graduated as M.B. from the University of London in 1851. He was elected a Fellow of the Zoological
of London in the same year, and presented his first paper there in March 1852 when only twenty years
e also contributed papers to the University College and Middlesex Hospital Medical Societies.
ch 1853, William entered the Middlesex Hospital as a Junior House Surgeon, and six months later was
ted a Senior House Surgeon. At the same time, William was the Curator of the Middlesex Hospital
m and greatly praised for his work there and the improvements he made. He passed the examination for
ership of the Royal College of Surgeons in March 1854, and then promptly sought consent from his
to take part in the Crimean War, if he could secure a post as an army surgeon. In July 1854 he sailed
ork (Ireland) on the ship Avon, as part of the 63rd West Suffolk Foot Regiment. Meanwhile, a fortnight
is brother Charles and sister-in-law Sarah were travelling all over France. Whilst many thousands of
and British soldiers were taking part in the Crimean War, the battles were fought a long way from
so life in England and France continued as usual for anyone who was not part of the military.
m9s regiment landed in the Kalamita Bay on the western side of the Crimea in August 1854 and took
the Battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman and the Siege of Sebastopol. William9s sister-in-law Sarah
(nee Martineau) states in her diary on 2 October 1854
