Charles Humphrey Jules Rey was a general surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 15 August 1915, in Bognor Regis, into a family of French origins. His father, Jules Frederick Rey, was a general practitioner. His mother was Bertha Maud née Bevan. He was sent as a boarder to his preparatory school and from then to Harrow as an entrance scholar. He enjoyed his schooldays and was a regular visitor to anniversary dinners. During his time there a petition allegedly signed by 400 boys called for a reduction in the excessive number of parades. This aroused considerable press coverage, not least in Germany. A question was asked in Parliament, and Eton offered to send a platoon to restore order. He went on to Guy’s Hospital in 1933, where he was noted for his elegant morning dress and carnation, and qualified in 1939. After house jobs at Guy’s, he joined the RAMC. He served at first with a searchlight unit and was then posted to Burma. There he rose to the rank of major, serving as a surgeon in casualty clearing stations and military hospitals, but he also took on the responsibility of a deputy assistant director of medical services, arranging for the evacuation of some 180,000 casualties in 21 months. Years later, while waiting to receive the Burma Star in Guernsey, he found himself sitting next to a soldier whose life he had saved from a gunshot wound in the shoulder. On demobilisation, he decided to specialise, completed registrar jobs at Guy’s and in other hospitals, and passed the FRCS in 1952. During this time he made friends with Jim Dickson, another Guy’s man, who had gone to Guernsey. He told Charles of an impending vacancy in the practice of Bostock and Webber, and there Rey moved in 1957. He worked closely with Dickson to provide a surgical service, but was also on call for general practice, the police doctor rota and became the divisional surgeon of the Guernsey division of St John Ambulance Brigade. He played a major part in planning the Princess Elizabeth Hospital. He was exceptionally courteous, dignified and self-disciplined. He made his calls in a Rolls-Royce and a three-piece suit. He married Thelma, who had studied at the same college of art as his sister. They had no children. He kept fit by a daily swim, which he continued even after undergoing cardiac surgery. He died at the age of 94 on 16 January 2010 from a lung abscess.