Born on 17 July 1873 in Victoria, Australia, the second son of William Lee a farmer, and his wife née Goss, he was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, and Queen's College, Melbourne, qualifying from Melbourne University in 1897. He practised at Melbourne till the outbreak of war in 1914, and became surgeon to out-patients at the Alfred Hospital and surgeon to Warracknabeal Hospital. He had been commissioned in the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1901, but transferred to the RAMC in 1915, was on active service till 1918, and was promoted Major. He then took postgraduate courses at the Middlesex and London Hospitals, served as temporary surgeon at the Hampstead General Hospital, and became senior surgeon to Battersea General Hospital, formerly the Anti-vivisection Hospital, where he served till 1939. He raised this hospital, in a very poor district, from low fortunes to efficiency and prosperity. He was an excellent surgeon, who carried the whole burden of the hospital's practice, including obstetrics and gynaecology. During the war of 1939-45 he served as a surgical specialist in the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. Lee married in 1898 Bertha Ethel Butson, who died a few years before him. He had practised at 49 and later at 39 Harley Street, and died on 29 March 1953 aged 79, survived by his only daughter. Publication: Experience in the reception and treatment of air-raid casualties. *Brit med J* 1941, 1, 584.