First World War
During the First World War, Garrod served as medical consultant to the army, primarily in Malta and in 1918 was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in recognition of his wartime services.
Two of his three sons were killed in action during the war, Thomas Martin Garrod aged 20 in 1915 and Alfred Noel Garrod aged 28 in 1916. In 1919, his third son Basil Rahere Garrod died, aged 21, in Cologne during the great Spanish Flu pandemic.
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