Deputy Surgeon-General Nathaniel Norris was born at Eastham, Cheshire in October 1832, took the M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. in 1854 and was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Army Medical Department in April of the following year. Attached variously to the 41st Foot, 85th Foot and the Rifle Brigade during the period 1858 to 1868, he was advanced to Surgeon in April of the latter year, shortly before being posted to the 90th Foot. With this latter Regiment he was present in operations on the North West Frontier and between 1877-78, while attached to the 13/9th Royal Artillery as a Surgeon-Major, in the Jowaki operations. Next actively employed in the Second Afghan War, Norris served in Medical Charge of the 1st Battalion, 5th Fusiliers and was S.M.O. in the action of Basud Plains in May 1880, in addition to several skirmishes. Advanced to Brigade Surgeon in early 1881, he went on to hold several Staff appointments in India and back in the U.K., and between 1884-85, as a Field Medical Inspector on the Lines of Communication, he participated in the Gordon Relief Expedition. Norris was placed on the Retired List as an Honorary Deputy Inspector-General on his return in June 1885 and died at Chester in September 1913.