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Major Alan Cunliffe Vidal DSO (1892-1898)

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After a distinguished career at the College, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University, before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps. During WW1 he was taken prisoner of war and ended up at Wittenburg camp, where he assisted in the medical treatment of typhus patients. Four of the six British medical officers being held there contracted the disease, including Captain Stephen Field (1895-98) who is on the WW1 Memorial. On 18 April 1916 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. After the war he served briefly in India before joining Ampleforth College in 1928 as the School Doctor, where he practiced there until he died in 1956.