Sandwith (1853-1918) trained at St. Thomas’ Hospital. According to his obituary in the British Medical Journal, “he saw a great deal of service in various wars. He was an ambulance surgeon in the Turco- Serbian war of 1876, and in the Russo-Turkish campaign in 1877-8; he was present at the fighting at Shipka Pass, and served on Baker Pasha's staff during his retreat across the Rhodope Mountains. In 1883 he went to Egypt to combat a cholera epidemic, and acted as vice-director of the Public Health Department of the Egyptian Government until 1885. He was then appointed professor of medicine in the Egyptian Government Medical School, and physician to the Kasr-el Ainy Hospital, Cairo. In 1900 he became senior physician to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Pretoria, and served throughout the South African war. He was the author of Medical Diseases of Egypt and Egypt as a Winter Resort, and when he settled in London maintained his keen interest in tropical diseases”. He died while recuperating after acting as consulting physician in Egypt to the Eastern Mediterranean Force in the First World War.