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Consultant surgeon Kingston Hospital, Surrey, 1964-89 (b 1924; q St Thomas's Hospital 1950; OBE, MC, TD, FRCS), died from renal failure on 21 November 2003.
Bill entered medical school in 1942 but interrupted his training to join the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards. As a troop leader of a tank squadron in Normandy in 1944 he was awarded the Military Cross. A year after qualification Bill rejoined the army as a Territorial medical officer, an association that was to last 27 years until his retirement. He was a governor of the Star and Garter home for disabled soldiers, sailors, and airmen; from 1985 he was honorary medical officer to the Commonwealth Ex-Services League; and he also worked with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. He leaves a wife, Ellie.
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