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for commissions in the Indian Medical Service and secured the 
seventh place of seventeen that were vacant. In due course 
he went to Netley and there, as he always maintained, he 
learnt little else that was of any use to him besides “ stretcher 
drill’?! In the leaving examination at Netley he dropped four 
places, coming out eleventh. He was wont to attribute this 
disaster to having devoted too much of his time while at Netley 
to playing billiards, a game in which very few who knew him 
in later years can ever have seenhimtakea hand! This drop 
in his position on the list resulted in his having to take service 
in the Madras Presidency. On his arrival in Madras he was 
posted to the Station Hospital for British troops, and to quote 
his well-remembered words, ‘“‘ I soon learned that A.R., I., Vol. 
VI, was the Law and the Prophets.” Although the son of an 
officer of the Army Medical Service, Sutherland throughout his 
whole career in the Indian Medical Service could never quite 
conceal his opinion that the sister service was immeasurably 
ing feeling, his first contact with the Army Medical Service at 
the British Station Hospital in Madras, which was then heavily 
with great delight that he read of the serological tests for the 
origin of blood in stains, and he forthwith determined to study 
the subject and in 1906 went to England for this purpose. 
At that time Sir Thomas Stevenson was Home Office expert, 
but he was too senile to accept the new test, hence it was not 
being tried Consequently Sutherland had to go to Germany 
