Major-General Sir Hayward Reader Whitehead ¹⁰⁰¹

  General Notes:

C.B. 1909; K.C.B. 1917. Entered the medical profession in 1873, and
the Army Medical Department in 1882. Asst Professor of Military
Surgery, Medical School, Netley, 1891-1896; served Tirah Campaign,
1897-1898; present at the actions of Dargai, and the taking of
Sampagha and Arhanga Passes; expedition against the Chamkanni Khel
Afridis; operations in the Bazar Valley, 1897 (despatches, medal 2
clasps, promoted Lieut-Colonel); Colonel, 1905, and Administrative
Medical Officer in India; Principal Med. Officer, Mohmand Expedition,
1908 (despatches, medal and clasp); Surgeon-General, 1909; deputy
Director, Medical Service, Southern Command, 1909-1912; Eastern
Command, 1912-1915; Director Medical Services, Malta, July 1915-March
1916; British Salonika Force, March 1916-September
1917; Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1912;
Commandant of the Legion of Honour, 2nd Class Order of St Sava, Grand
Commander of the Order of the Redeemer, Médaille d®or des Epidémies,
Serbian Red Cross. Colonel Commandant RAMC 1922.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He appeared on the census in 1861 in The Parsonage, Gawcott, Buckingham.

2. Census UK 1911: 1911, Werneth, 2 Bourne Avenue, Salisbury, Wiltshire. ¹⁰

3. He had an estate probated on 31 October 1925 in London. ¹³

Hayward married Evelyn Wynne Cayley, daughter of Major Henry Cayley and Letitia Mary Walters, on 13 February 1893 in South Stoneham, Hampshire. (Evelyn Wynne Cayley was born in 1867 in St. Thomas', Exeter, Devon and died on 9 February 1958 in The Cottage Hospital, Leatherhead, Surrey ¹³.)