After qualifying from Sydney University, he worked in New Zealand 1953-1955 holding house appointments at Dannevirke Hospital, Hawke's Bay and Dunedin Hospital and as surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital. He came to England in 1956, and after periods at St James's Hospital, the London Chest Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital he obtained the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1958 and the English Fellowship in 1959. He was senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and was commissioned as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve. During 1964-65 he was resident assistant at St James's Hospital, Balham, and continued to practise in London, living at Haverstock Hill NW3. He died about November 1967, in his late thirties.