Moody, Douglas Whimster Keiller
Rank: Surgeon
Regiment: H.M. Cruiser Natal, Royal Navy
Biography: Son of William J. Moody ; born Dumfries, 5 April 1873 ; graduated M.B., 1900 ; M.D., 1902. After graduation Moody acted as House Surgeon at Peterborough Infirmary, then as Anaesthetist and Second House Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and later was for some time a Medical Officer on board P.& 0. liners. He was the author of several works—amongst others "A Critical Treatise on Beriberi", and "Beriberi among the Lascar Crews on Board Ship"—and contributed other valuable works to the "British Medical Journal" and the "Lancet". Coming of a fighting ancestry—his great-grandfather fought at Lisbon and Coruna under Sir John Moore—Moody offered himself for service at the beginning of the war. He acted as Surgeon at Haslar Naval Hospital until September 1915, when he was commissioned in the R.N. and posted to H.M. Cruiser "Natal". His service, however, only lasted a few months as he lost his life on the "Natal" when she was destroyed by an explosion in harbour at Invergordon on 30 December 1915.
Date of Death: 30 December 1915
Burial Details: Name recorded on the Chatham Memorial, Panel 9.
Publication: Roll of Service, edited by Mabel Desborough Allardyce. Published 1921.
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