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| first_name = John Charles Baron

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Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps who was born in Agra, India on the 7th November 1872 and died in Raigarh, India on 29th April 1933. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, the London University and Cambridge University before entering the R.A.M.C. as surgeon lieutenant in 1896. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1915 and to colonel in 1917, before retiring in 1921.<br /><br />Statham served in the campaign on the North-West Frontier of lndia in 1897-8, receiving the Frontier medal, and in West Africa during the First World War, when he was mentioned in dispatches and received the C.M.G. for bravery in tending wounded soldiers under heavy fire. Subsequently he served as administrative medical officer with the Serbian Army. After the war he received the C.B.E., the Legion of Honour, the Croix de Guerre, the Order of St. Saba of Serbia, and the Italian silver medal for public health. <br /><br />During his retirement Statham devoted himself to travel in Africa and Asia and is the author of "Through Angola", 1922; "With My Wrife Across Africa by Canoe and<br />Caravan," 1924; and "The Romance of a Tudor House," 1929. In 1922 he married Jessie Throsk, their honeymoon consisting in the journey across Africa described in his second book.<br /><br />His obituary in the British Medical Journal of 27th May 1933 records that he died at Raigarh, Central Provinces, India, of injuries inflicted by wild bees while making an archaeological investigation in the Cave of Sighanpur, in Raigarh State, earlier the same day. Statham's collection of Palaeolithic artefacts from findspots in the Middle East and Africa was donated to the British Museum by the National Trust in 1934.<br />