David Owen Davies was a consultant surgeon to the Epsom group of hospitals. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 17 June 1909. His father, Frederick Moses Davies, was a bank official. His mother was Amy Maude Mary Flanders. Educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Tower Bridge, he went to St Bartholomew's, from which he took the primary and won the Hallett prize. After junior posts at the Royal Northern Hospital, he was house surgeon, surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Great Ormond Street, working under Sir Lancelot Barrington Ward and Sir Denis Brown, before going to Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester. He joined the RAMC at the outbreak of war and as a temporary Lieutenant Colonel was in command of a field surgical unit at the Normandy landings. Later he was posted to India as a surgical specialist and was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Epsom District Hospital in 1946. He married Marion Watson in 1940. They had one son, John, who trained at Bart's and an adopted daughter, Sarah, who became a nurse at the Westminster Hospital. He was a keen stamp collector and gardener. He died on 26 February 1997.