Former principal medical officer HM Prison Service (b Fraserburgh 1918; q Aberdeen 1942; MRCPsych), died from a brain haemorrhage on 10 December 2003.
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Bill was of small stature yet of engaging personality. He served as a surgeon lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during the second world war on destroyers patrolling the French coastline and protecting landing craft on D Day. Demobbed he took hospital work in Devon for a while, and met at Devonport a former fellow commander, one destined to become director of prison medical services, Bill also joined and remained in that same service until he retired in 1982. Predeceased by his first wife, Joan-Mary, he leaves his second wife, Carol, and three children.
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