Surgical Staff

Surgical Staff

Colonel Robert T. Gants, Chief of Surgical Service since July 1946, is shown above with his surgical staff

Front row, l-r: Capt. Stephen R. Lewis, MC, Plastic subsection: Capt. George B. Patrick. MC. Chief Obstetrical & Gynecological Section: Capt. Edward L. Doemman MC. Chief Otorhindlaryngological Section; Major Peter Van Deg Westhuysen, MC. Chief General Surgical Section and Asst. Chief Surgical Service; Colonel Robert T. Gants. Me, Chief of Surgical Service: It. Col. James B. Seaman, MC. Chief of Urological Section; Major James S. Greetham, MC, Chief of Opthalmological Section; Capt. Otto Lehman, MD, Chief of Orthopedic Section.

SECOND ROW LEFT TO RIGHT: 1st Lt. Paul E. Humphrey, MC. Urological Section; Capt. Francis C. Link, MC. Orthopedic Section; Capt. William R. Bliss, MC, Orthopedic Section: Capt. Robert H. Eyberg, MD. Orthopedic Section; Capt. Edwin J. Otis, MC. Orthopedic Section: Lt. Lewis E. Morrison, II, MC, Otorhinolaryngological Section; 1st Lt. Charles V. Heck. MC, Asst. Chief, Orthopedic Section; Capt. Raymond J. Barrett, MC, General Surgical Section; Capt. William S. Haeckler, Me, Orthopedic Section; 1st Lt. Salvatore A. Orsini, Me, Chief of Anesthesia Section.

BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Capt. William Thomas Payne, III, Me, Orthopedic Section; 1st Lt. Moses Leeb, Me. Orthopedic Section: Capt. William G. Wilber, MC. Orthopedic Section; 1st It. Sam W. Campbell, MC, Orthopedic Section; Capt. John R. Rydell, MC, NeuroSurgical Subsection; Capt. Frederick E. Wallber, MC. Opthalmological Section; Capt. Willard C. Sellman, MC. Plastic subsection: lit Lt. Max D. Bartley. Me, Ophthalmologic Section; 1st Lt. Robert M. Herlihy, MC, Astrological Section; Major Charles E. Waiters, Me. General Surgical Section; Capt. Kenneth K. Hanford. MC, Astrological Section; 1st Lt. Robert E. Buckmaster, Me, Orthopedic Section; Major Francis Nicholson, MC, General Surgical Section.

George E. Krimm and several of the other hospital
surgery persons. My parents met there. They were married there on base at one of the chapels on base. My father was a surgical orderly/assistant and my Mom a secretary for one of the surgeons. She may well have worked for Col. Blocker. The Col. and my parents had contact over the years as the Col. followed many of the soldiers who had their faces and limbs rebuilt in what was the early days of plastic and reconstructive surgery. He came to the house in Ohio on several occasions before his passing in the 80's.

Wedding Photo
George E. Krimm and Cleta Jayne Ferguson

My mother worked there as a civilian employee, her father Clarence Ferguson was the Edinburgh Town Marshall and later Police Chief from the times before the Army base until the late 1960's and lived along the blue river just up river from the dam. My mothers family were the ninth settlers in what was then the Northwest territories.

Charles F. Krimm, son.