Son of George Alfred Rouquette, of 3 Grassington Place, Eastbourne; after going to Eastbourne College, he was admitted to King's College, Cambridge, on October 6th, 1905, and graduated BA with 2nd class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1908. He became a student at St Thomas's Hospital in 1909, where he held the appointments of House Surgeon, Resident Anaesthetist, Casualty Officer, Surgical Registrar, and in 1912 won the Solly Medal. He was one of the younger surgeons specially kept at home during the War to serve the needs of the civil population at the hospitals, and held the appointment of Resident Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas's from 1914-1918. He also acted as Consulting Surgeon to Lady Ridley's Hospital at Carlton House Terrace, and later to the French Hospital. He was thus given abundant opportunities for exhibiting his remarkable manual skill which was combined with a judgement notable in so young a surgeon. At the suggestion of Sir Hector Mackenzie he acted as assistant to T P Dunhill at thyroidectomy operations, and then himself carried out a brilliant series of operations for Graves' disease so successfully that he had nearly completed a hundred of such operations without a fatality. Among war injuries he was particularly skilled in the repair of nerve lesions. All his surgical work was done at high pressure in the absence abroad of many of the surgical staff. He died after a short illness on February 27th, 1919.