245594 Sub.Lt. Alan Wordsworth Fawcett Royal Navy HMS Tigress This is a submission of a serving officer's name, and link to a model of HMS Tigress made by him - possibly still with the officer's family descendants. on this weblink
Mr Fawcett is listed by the Royal College of Surgeons as having served on HMS Tigress as a Surgeon Sub-Lt. However he was born in 1896 and did not qualify as a surgeon until 1927 so the dates seem to indicate that he may not have served as a surgeon officer. During 1914-19 he would have been aged 18-23 yrs.
The RCS record also states that in later years "With his superb manual dexterity he became a very gifted model builder, and his detailed model of HMS Tigress, the destroyer in which he served in the first world war, gained a prize at the doctors' hobbies exhibition of the British Medical Association. This model can be seen (briefly) in the film
I have no other knowledge of Mr Fawcett except that he operated on me as a 3 week-old baby in February 1939, and I still have the abdominal scar to prove it, as well as the discharge card from Sheffield Royal Infirmary from 1939, which records that he was the surgeon.
I qualified as a doctor (physician) in 1963, and later served in the Royal Australian Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
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