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/Philip Gosse, Naturalist Philip Gosse 1879 - 1959

grandson of P. H. Gosse, was a keen naturalist and qualified doctor who published a book entitled Memoirs of a Camp Follower in March 1934, later issued as A Naturalist goes to War, (1942) which contains memories of his time in the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) in France/Belgium in 1915-1917 and India in 1917-1918. It is an account of much field work, on an average day he caught and skinned mice shrews and small mammals, which went to the Natural History Museum, some of the horrors of war, and army anecdotes. He was also appointed as rat officer to the 2nd Army.