Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition, and was Broderip scholar in 1903. Rees served as house physician, house surgeon and casualty medical officer at the Middlesex Hospital and was later registrar and pathologist at the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth. After temporary work at Sandringham, he travelled in Japan, and practised for a time at Vancouver, BC. In 1907 he settled in practice at Swanage, Dorset. Here he became medical officer to the Cottage Hospital and surgeon to the Dorset Red Cross Children's Hospital. He was also medical officer and public vaccinator for the Wareham and Purbeck district. He was commissioned as temporary captain, RAMC on 1 November 1915, and served in France during the four years' war. Rees married on 2 September 1920, Olive Carey Hughes, daughter of Henry Hughes of Maidstone, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died very suddenly at Swanage on 29 January 1941, from coronary thrombosis, aged 62. Rees was very shy and retiring and seemed unconscious of his considerable abilities. He was an active churchman. Publications: A case of uraemia with persistent hiccough; death. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 738. Abdominal surgery at an advanced operating centre, with G S Hughes. *Lancet*, 1917, 1, 642. Wounds of the chest at an advanced operating centre, with G S Hughes. *Lancet*, 1918, 1, 55.