John James McIntosh Shaw
John James McIntosh Shaw (1885–10 September 1940) was a Scottish military surgeon who helped develop plastic surgery in the 1920s. He was born in Port Glasgow and grew up in Newhaven, Edinburgh. He studied at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, earning an MA in 1906, MBChB in 1909, and an MD in 1913.
In World War I he served as a Major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the Royal Artillery. He won the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre with star, and was mentioned in dispatches twice. After the war he specialized in plastic surgery, focusing on war injuries, and he also worked with early x-ray therapy. He lectured in Clinical Surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He was elected to the Harveian Society of Edinburgh in 1926 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1931.
During World War II he served as Consultant Surgeon in the Field to the British Army for the Middle East. He died of acute dysentery in Cairo on 10 September 1940 and is buried in the Cairo War Memorial Cemetery (grave P253). He was married to Mina Draper Shaw; they lived in Barnton, Edinburgh, and had four children.
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