Major General Andrew Clyne, a hugely experienced military surgeon who served in a number of campaigns, was director general of medical services for the Royal Australia Army Medical Corps. He was born on 30 June 1907 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of Andrew Morrison Clyne, a stock and station agent, and Ethel Kathleen Clyne née Kentish. He was educated at the University High School in Melbourne, and then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, gaining a BSc and qualifying MB BS in 1932 with the Keith Levi memorial prize in medicine and the Jamieson prize in clinical medicine. After a post as a resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital, he went to the UK and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1934 as a lieutenant, proceeding to the rank of captain in March 1935. In the pre-war years he was based in India. During the Second World War he was a staff captain at the Southern Command (India) and deputy assistant director of medical services and then assistant director at the Army headquarters between December 1942 and July 1943. From July 1943 and October 1944 he was officer commanding the 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station, and officer commanding 51 MFTU (malaria forward treatment unit) between October 1944 and March 1945. He was then in command of the British Military Hospitals in Deolali, in Bombay and finally in Delhi between September 1945 and July 1946. In 1947 he was at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, and in 1949 was a clinical assistant at Miller Hospital, Greenwich. He gained his FRCS in 1949, followed by a series of appointments as a consultant surgeon, firstly in the Far East between February 1950 and May 1956, which covered most of the Malayan Emergency. He also served in Korea. Between August 1956 and February 1959 he was a consultant surgeon at the headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine at Rheindahlen, West Germany. From there, he became a consultant surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces based in Cyprus, between February 1959 and June 1960 - the period when EOKA (Ethnikí Orgánosis Kipriakoú Agónos) was fighting for independence. He then returned to the United Kingdom and was promoted to honorary brigadier. He relinquished his commission after being appointed by the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps as their next director general of medical services. He served in this role from 1960 to 1967. He was made an honorary major general around 1963. He was an honorary surgeon to The Queen. He was clearly a surgeon of considerable ability and served with distinction as a senior medical administrator. He was awarded with the 1939-1945 Star, the Burma Star, and the Defence and War medals for his service in the Second World War. Later he gained the Malayan General Service medal, and the Korean and UN medals. In 1954 he was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his service in the Far East. He married Queenie Decima Ford in 1935. They had two daughters.