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Asset Name:
E004943 - Cameron, Thomas Gordon (1918 - 1955)
Title:
Cameron, Thomas Gordon (1918 - 1955)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004943
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-02-03
Description:
Obituary for Cameron, Thomas Gordon (1918 - 1955), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Cameron, Thomas Gordon
Date of Birth:
30 April 1918
Place of Birth:
Sunderland
Date of Death:
19 July 1955
Place of Death:
Newcastle
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MC 1944

MRCS and FRCS 8 December 1949

MB BS Durham 1940
Details:
Born at Sunderland on 30 April 1918, he was educated at Rossall and the Newcastle Medical School. He qualified in 1940 after war had broken out and was commissioned in the RAMC serving in the 11th Light Field Ambulance with the 9th and later with the 79th Armoured Division. He was appointed medical officer to the 13/18 Hussars, Queen Mary's Own, and in 1944 landed in Normandy on the first day of invasion. A few weeks later he won the Military Cross. He was transferred to the Army Blood Transfusion Service in December, and in summer 1945 after the German capitulation spent two months in rescue work in the notorious Belsen prison-camp. He had been promoted Major, and during the period of demobilisation served as senior medical officer in the troop-ships Stratheden and Cameronia. After the war he joined the Territorial Reserve as a Lieutenant-Colonel attached to the 1st Northern General Hospital. He accepted the post of demonstrator of anatomy at King's College, Newcastle in 1946, joined the surgical professorial unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary under F H Bentley and Norman Hodgson in 1947, and became senior registrar in 1951. During this period he made a large-scale assessment of the merits of differing stomach operations. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the South-West Durham group of hospitals, with headquarters at Bishop Auckland Hospital in 1953. He died suddenly from a heart attack while attending a meeting in Newcastle on 19 July 1955, aged 37. He had married Elizabeth Jordon, who survived him with their young son. Cameron was a tall, cheerful man, fond of outdoor life, and an excellent teacher.
Sources:
*Darlington Echo* 22 July 1955

*Lancet* 1955, 2, 400 with portrait and eulogy by FGT and WW

*Brit med J* 1955, 2, 568 by DTP with portrait, and eulogies by FGT and WW, and by AHW, and at page 795 by Dr R Anderton, who had been his commanding officer in the Field Ambulance
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004900-E004999
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Unknown