Catalogue description Album of photographs, newspaper cuttings and ephemera collected by William Allan Stewart, LRCP, MRCS, student at LHMC 1908-1913

The album that forms this collection includes pictures of the trials that were held in London to select athletes for the Games, as well as pictures taken at the Games themselves. In August 1914, nine days after the outbreak of the First World War, the Rugby Football Union advised all players to join the armed forces. Stewart resigned his post at the London and joined the London Scottish Regiment. At the rear of the album is a photograph of a London Scottish Rugby team, under which is noted which members were killed, wounded or reported missing during the War. Stewart was reported as 'wounded and missing'. He returned to the London in December 1915 to take up his post of receiving room officer.

Stewart, William Allan, b 1889, surgeon

Transferred from Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Photographic Department by Mr Ivor Northey, photographer, 2001

• Olympic games

William Allan Stewart was born on 23 October 1889. He entered the London Hospital Medical College on October 1st 1908. Originally from Tasmania, he was the fourth generation of his family to enter the Medical College. During his training he won the Out-Patient Dresser's Prize, 1911, and qualified as LRCP and MRCS in 1913. Stewart held the following posts at the London Hospital: senior dresser to out patients, emergency officer, receiving room officer, house surgeon to Messers Furnival and Kidd, house physician to Dr Hutchison, junior resident accoucheur and senior resident accoucheur. As well as being a medical professional, Stewart was an accomplished athlete. He was the 220 yds champion of Scotland and took part in the Olympic Games in Stockholm, 1912