Eminson, Basil Franklin
B.F. EMINSON
Basil Franklin Eminson MB, BS, DOMS, IMS
Lieutenant, Indian Medical Service attached 28th Light Cavalry
Captain, 28th Light Cavalry Indian Army
Captain, Indian Medical Service
Born 24th September 1887 in Scotter
2nd son of Thomas Benjamin Franklin (a Medical Practitioner from Scooter) and Clara (nee Burgess of Edenham)
Family lived at Gonerby House, High Street
Educated at Epsom College; a bowler in their 1906 cricket team
Also played cricket for Scotter
Qualified as a doctor at Charing Cross Hospital, London on 17th December 1910
Enlisted in 1912
Adept at all ball games and played rugby for the Army
Promoted from Lieutenant to Captain on 27th July 1915
Served in Burma, Persia, Mesopotamia and Afghanistan
On 7th June 1921 at Christ Church, Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India married Mary (‘May’) Davidson (of the Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service) from Aboyne, Aberdeenshire
Transferred to the civil side of his service in 1924
Held several of the most important civil surgeon posts in Sind including Karachi (now in Pakistan)
Medical Officer of Central Prison, Hyderabad when Mahatma Ghandi was an inmate in 1934
President of the Sind branch of the British Medical Association from 1940-1941
Rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel
Retired from the Indian Medical Service on 24th September 1942
In King George VI's New Years Honours List of 1944 awarded the Kaisar-I-Hind Gold Medal for ‘public services in India’
Undertook ophthalmic work at Scunthorpe Hospital
A keen sportsman and first class shot
Died at his home on 2nd February 1967 aged 79
Ashes interred in the family plot at Scotter Cemetery
Brother of Robert Astley Franklin
Brother of Ralph Franklin