Former consultant general surgeon Walsall (b Ceylon 1916; q Guy's Hospital, London, 1939; FRCS), d 29 February 2004.
He taught anatomy before being called up as a surgical specialist in the eastern Mediterranean. He survived the sinking of the Medway and spent time in Massawa. After the second world war he returned to Guy's to complete his surgical training and was appointed consultant surgeon to the Walsall Hospitals in 1951. He retired to Lymington in 1981 and continued to sail to France and along the south coast into his 80s. He leaves a wife, Patricia, and three children.
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