Honorary Colonel John Alexander Crozier Kidd was born in Dublin in April 1893 and qualified in medicine during the course of 1916. Mobilised from the Reserve in September of the latter year, he went on to serve in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and gained advancement to Captain in March 1917. Kidd remained a Regular Officer of the R.A.M.C. at the end of hostilities, and served in India between the Wars, gaining advancement to Major in September 1928 and participating in the North West Frontier operations of 1937-39. Returning to the U.K., he was next employed out in France with the B.E.F., as a Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in command of 207 Field Ambulance, and afterwards as C.O. of No. 20 Casualty Clearing Station. Kidd served for the remainder of the War in India and witnessed active service with the 14th Indian Division in Burma, gaining promotion to Temporary Colonel in September 1944. The end of hostilities saw his appointment to the British Military Hospital (B.M.H.) in Nairobi and, between 1947-48, as C.O. of the B.M.H. at Haifa, Palestine. Kidd finally retired in December 1955 with the Honorary Rank of Colonel.