Former general practitioner Cambridge (b 1920; q Cambridge/King's College Hospital, London, 1944; MD, FRCGP), d 13 March 2003.
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Credit: CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS
With wry amusement Tom Anderson made a belated claim to the medals to which he was entitled: the Home Guard medal (obtained following service as a medical student at King's College Hospital), the Palestine Star (as a doctor with the Royal Army Medical Corps 1945-7), and the Falklands medal (as a doctor with the Royal Fleet Auxiliary 1982-5)—all dropped through the letterbox on the same day. Tom spent the intervening years as a general practitioner in Cambridge and clinical assistant in the chest clinic at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He took medicine (but not himself) seriously. He leaves a wife, Margaret; two daughters; and three sons.
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