Thom's Irish Who's Who/Corker, Major-Gen. Thomas Martin

2939017Thom's Irish Who's Who — Corker, Major-Gen. Thomas Martin


CORKER, Major-Gen. Thomas Martin, C.B., Mil. (1915), M.A., M.D., M.Ch. (Q.U.I.). Educ. at Queen's University, Ireland. Entered Army 1880; became Major R.A.M.C, 1892; Lieut.-Col., 1900; Brevet Col. 1905; Col. 1907; Surg.-Gen., 1911; and Maj.-Gen. (retired), 1917; served in Mohmand Campaign, 1897; Tirah Expedition, 1897-8 (despatches, medal with two clasps); Princpal Medical Officer, Cape Colony, 1904; Belfast Dist., 1905; Scottish Command, 1906; Egypt, 1909, Lucknow Div.. 1911: Poona Div. 1912, and Secunderabad Div., 1913; Dep. Director of Med. Sers. in India, 1912-15; was an Hon. Physician to H.M., 1912-18: is a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England; son of Thomas Ware Corker, of Rushbrook, Co. Cork; b. 1856; m. 1886, Florence, dau. of James Edward Leslie, of Lecarron, Passage West, Co. Cork. Junior United Service Club, London.