Marc Armand Ruffer

In memoriam

Son of Baron Alphonse Jacques and Caroline Ruffer of Switzerland and the husband of Alice Mary Greenfield Ruffer. He was an Investigative pathologist and bacteriologist that studied at Brasenose, Oxford, University College London and the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He is considered a pioneer of modern paleopathology. He moved to Egypt for health reasons and was appointed a professor of bacteriology at the The Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. He went to Greece during the First World War to improve sanitation and on April 15, 1917 while returning to Egypt on board the SS Arcadian he was lost at sea when the ship was torpedoed without warning 41.5 kilometers north east from the island of Milo (Melos), (carrying reinforcements for Egypt) by the German submarine UC-74 with the loss of 279 lives. The following is from darealjolo Find-a-Grave contributor # 46896240 He was Knighted, so his title was Sir Marc Armand Ruffer, KCMG. {Order of St Michael and St George} He was accepted on September 17, 2016 for commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on their Mikra Memorial in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, Greece by reason of his service [as a Commissioner] at the time of death, with The British Red Cross Society, an RCO [Recognized Civilian Organization]. The Mikra memorial commemorates almost 500 nurses, officers and men of the Commonwealth forces who died when troop transports and hospital ships were lost in the Mediterranean, and who have no grave but the sea. They are commemorated here because others who went down in the same vessels were washed ashore and identified, and are now buried at Thessaloniki.]

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