Hugh Cecil Fletcher-Jones was born in Yung Ping Fuh on 26 February 1911, the third son of Dr Arthur Fletcher-Jones who was, for 20 years, a medical missionary in China. He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Bath and qualified MB BS in 1935 at the Westminster Hospital, did his residency there and at the Radcliffe, Oxford, and obtained his FRCS in 1940. He eventually became senior surgical registrar at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex. In the course of his career he was associated with Arthur Evans, Sir Stanford Cade, R L Galloway and Hugh Blanvelt, all of whom influenced his work. During the second world war he served in the RAMC with the rank of Captain and was wounded at Arnhem. In 1951 he spent a year as senior surgeon to the Princess Tsahai Memorial Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He emigrated to Western Australia in 1952 and practised in Boulder for 20 years until ill health forced him to retire. He gave long and valued service to the Royal Flying Doctor Service (E Goldfields Section) first as a flying doctor and then as honorary medical advisor. He was the Charter President of the Boulder Rotary Club and had a keen interest in Aboriginal welfare and the care of all under-privileged groups. He was a devoted churchman, churchwarden of St Matthew's and diocesan councillor for many years. He was the local section president of the AMA and for many years the representative to Convocation. His hobbies were gardening, fishing and golf. In 1945 he married Lena Edith Woodward and they had one son and two daughters of whom the elder, Joy, qualified in medicine. He died on 19 January 1974, aged 62.