Born at Hill House, Wickwar, Gloucestershire on 10 July 1869, the eighth child and sixth son of John Arnold, brewer and farmer, and Clara Harward his wife. The six consecutive sons were followed by two daughters. He was educated at the local grammar school before entering St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and was clinical assistant in the throat and x-ray departments, and afterwards took a postgraduate course in Paris. He then settled in practice at Torquay, where he acted as surgeon to the Torbay Hospital. Having already joined the territorial force he was mobilized in September 1914 with the rank of captain, RAMC, promoted major 1 March 1916 and demobilized in 1921. During this time he acted as a surgeon specialist in France until January 1919, and was in Egypt and Palestine in 1920-21. He married Alice Marion Charlton on 10 June 1899. She survived him, but their only child died in boyhood. G J Arnold died at Bournemouth on 18 November 1939. Publications: Infiltration anaesthesia in major and minor surgery. *Brit med J*. 1907, 1, 674. An appliance for use in severe injuries of the upper extremity. *Ibid*. 1916, 2, 254.