Please join us for this special annual event and meet with other members and enjoy the splendid grandeur of the Cavalry and Guards Club.

The Gallipoli Association Autumn AGM will start at 11.00 at the Cavalry and Guards Club, 127 Piccadilly, London W1J 7PY followed by a pre-lunch drinks reception at 12.30 and then lunch. We will be joined by a special guest speaker, so it should be an event to remember.

The Cavalry and Guards Club can accommodate 60 for lunch, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Unfortunately, due to rising costs the price this year will be £65 per head, but this includes the pre-lunchtime drinks, a two course lunch and wine and coffee.

The Club has a Formal Dress Code requirement. Jacket and Tie for the gentlemen and smart attire for the ladies. No jeans or trainers.

The AGM is for members only, but guests are invited to join them for lunch.

Booking Form (Word)

Booking Form (PDF)

Enquiries to Hester Huttenbach at [email protected]

The Annual Conference and Dinner will be held on the following day, Saturday 2 November.

Speaker: Major General Tim Hodgetts CB CBE KHS OStJ DL

Our speaker will be Major General Tim Hodgetts CB CBE KHS OStJ DL on ‘Medical Lessons from the War in Ukraine’.

Tim was commissioned in 1983 and trained at Westminster Medical School, qualifying with distinction in 1986. He holds fellowships with the Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (without examination), Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine (honorary, by distinction) Faculty of Public Health (by distinction), Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Emergency Planning Society (inaugural Honorary Fellow), Chartered Management Institute, and the Royal Geographical Society. Higher degrees are a Doctor of Science (Honorary, University of Warwick); a PhD in Public Health; a Master’s in Medical Education; and a Master’s in Business Administration. He is a Chartered Manager by appraisal. Tim graduated from Joint Command & Staff College (psc[j]) in 2011 and the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2018 (top Army member).

Tim’s professional career began as a general physician in the British Military Hospital in Hannover, progressing to higher training in emergency medicine in Manchester and Sydney. He became Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Frimley Park Hospital from 1995, transferring to the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) in 2001 on its inception, where he served until 2010. He was first appointed a Professor in 1998 at the European Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, then at University of Birmingham (2001), City University of London (2013) and Defence University of Belgrade (Military Medical Academy) by distinction (2023). He was inaugural Defence Professor with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine from 2008-2010, and tenured Penman Foundation Professor of Surgery in South Africa for 2011.

Within Defence Tim has been responsible for nurturing the specialty of emergency medicine from infancy to maturity. He has implemented concept, doctrine, equipment and practice changes to transform the early management of combat injury and he led major trauma governance from 1997-2010. Clinical leadership appointments have included Defence Consultant Adviser in EM (1997-2008); and Assistant Director Clinical Services at RCDM (2001-2007). He has served on operations in hospitals in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Oman, Afghanistan (3 tours), Kuwait and Iraq (4 tours). On 6 of these tours he was the hospital’s Medical Director, including the multinational Danish-UK-US hospital in Afghanistan, 2009. From 2011-13 he was Medical Director within NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps; and from 2014-17 he was Medical Director for the Defence Medical Services. From 2018-21 he has was the Army’s Senior Health Advisor, the Head of the Army Medical Services and a Commissioner at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. From 2021-24 he was Surgeon General of the UK Armed Forces.

Additionally in 2021 Tim was elected by nations to be the senior medical representative in NATO, through appointment as Chair of the Committee of Military Medical Chiefs (COMEDS).

Tim has published extensively (>35 books & >150 journal articles) and regularly lectures internationally as a keynote speaker on leadership, crisis management, innovation, disaster medicine and combat casualty care. He is co-author of Major Incident Medical Management and Support; Battlefield Casualty Drills; Army Team Medic; Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support; Pre-Hospital Paediatric Life Support; Firefighter Life Support; and Clinical Guidelines for Operations. He co-founded the citizenAID® charity from 2017, designing a free multi award-winning app to support the public during a terrorist attack, and gifting to the charity the patent of his new device (the Tourni-Key®) to treat life-threatening limb bleeding. Tim is also a Trustee of The Poppy Factory and London’s Air Ambulance charities.

Tim was made Officer of the Order of St John in 1999; Commander of the British Empire in 2009; and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 2023. He received the Danish Defence Medal for Meritorious Service in 2010, and the Order of Military Medical Merit (United States Army) in 2022. He was Queen’s Honorary Physician from 2004 to 2010, became Queen’s Honorary Surgeon in 2018 and has been King’s Honorary Surgeon since 2022. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of West Midlands in 2023.

In 2010 Tim received the Defence Scientific Adviser’s Commendation for contribution to research and has been awarded 19 academic medals. As a mark of career achievement he received the rare award of Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2024, and separately the President’s Medal for 2024 from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. His academic department was twice recognised nationally as the “Training Team of the Year” and in 2006 he was honoured with the personal accolade of Hospital Doctor of the Year throughout the NHS. He was named in a British Medical Association dossier as one of the most innovative doctors in the country. Tim has written contemporary war poetry for 25 years, exhibited at National Army Museum and performed at the Edinburgh Fringe.