GSM with oak leaf, Palestine 1945-48 bar, to Captain Dr Anthony Batty Shaw, RAMC, attached to 2 Para, MiD for tending wounded at the King David Hotel in 1948, a senior physician at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, also a medical historian, see history
General Service Medal with oak leaf, Palestine 1945-48 bar, to Captain Doctor Anthony Batty Shaw, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to 2 Para, mentioned in despatches for tending wounded at the King David Hotel in 1948, he was a senior physician at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, also a medical historian, he was born in London, his father was a distinguished physician of University Hospital London, lived in Norwich, a very important physician, see history
Anthony Batty Shaw (known as 'Tony') was a senior physician at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and also a medical historian. Tony was born in London, where his father, Harold Batty Shaw [Munk's Roll, Vol.IV, p.467), was a distinguished physician on the staff of University College Hospital. His mother, Muriel Agnes Eillison Shaw née Watson, was an accomplished musician and violinist.
Tony was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was taught, amongst others, by Lord Solly Zuckerman [Munk's Roll, Vol.IX, p.612]. He gained a university scholarship to Guy's Hospital in London for his clinical years. He was a good rugby player for Oxford University and Guy's Hospital. In the Cambridge-Oxford match, he played in the scrum against John Stephens: later they became colleagues on the consultant staff at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, John Stephens as a consultant surgeon.
On qualification Tony undertook house appointments with many famous physicians at Guy's Hospital and then, in 1946, entered National Service as a medical officer in the RAMC to the 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment. He served in the Middle East and Cyprus, and was mentioned in despatches for services in Palestine.
He was demobilised in 1948 and went on to receive further training at the Brompton Hospital in chest diseases and then had a broad-based education back at Guy's. From 1952 to 1953 he held an Arthur Durham travelling studentship to visit medical centres in Scandinavia, Canada and the USA, and was for a short time resident assistant physician at Bellevue Hospital, New York, part of Columbia University. After this he served on a rotating senior registrar post between the Bromley Group of Hospitals and Guy's. All this provided him with excellent credentials to replace Branford Morgan [Munk's Roll, Vol.VII, p.412] as a consultant at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1956, a post he held with distinction until he retired in 1987. He was also a member of the medical committee of the Norwich Union Insurance Societies.
In addition to his work at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, he also looked after patients in Cromer Cottage Hospital and was always prepared to do domiciliary visit on patients for GPs throughout.