Purnendu Kumar Chattopadhyaya was a surgeon in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He died on 11 December 2014.

Nani Gopal Kundu was a surgeon who worked in Sydney, Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He died on 1 August 2014.

Mohamed El-Sheikh was a professor of surgery in Alexandria, Egypt. He gained his FRCS in 1967 and was a Hunterian professor in 1997. He died on 24 June 2008.

Prasert Sukhum was a surgeon in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualified MB BS in 1959 and then specialised in surgery. He worked at various hospitals in the UK and gained his FRCS in 1967. He returned to Thailand, where he was a lecturer and assistant prof

Bryan graduated from Sydney University in 1961. He completed internship at Royal North Shore Hospital in that year. In 1962 he accepted his first appointment to Prince Henry, Prince of Wales Hospitals. These hospitals were to become his clinical home for his professional life. Like so many at tha

Anthony Higham was a surgeon from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Manchester University graduating MB ChB in 1962. Five years later, in 1967, he passed the fellowship of the college and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He died in 2013.

David Owen was a surgeon who lived in Nairn, Scotland. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Peter Catts was a general surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 12 April 1940, the son of Stanley Victor Catts and Vera Jean Catts née Reynolds. He went to the UK for surgical training and gained his FRCS in 1967. He then returned to Australia, where h

Mohammed Kabiruddin Ahmed was professor and head of the department of surgery at the Medical College and Hospital, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was born on 31 March 1934 in Sylhet, the son of Mohammed Asghar, a mathematics graduate and a magistrate in the Assam Civil Service, and Umirunnessa née Choudhury

Roger Lallemand was a consultant surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey. He was born on 21 September 1935 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia, the son of Joseph François Lallemand (from Ciney, Belgium) and Gladys Ann Lallemand née Else (from Bexley, Kent). Roger started school in Nkana aged four, but when

John Beaugié was a consultant general surgeon at North Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born on 26 September 1939 in Folkestone, Kent, the eldest of five children. His father, Donald McNicoll Beaugié, had been a missionary doctor in Nigeria before succumbing to ill health and returning to the UK t

Komaluru Radhakrishna Visvanathan, known as ‘Vishy’, was a general surgeon in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India on 3 September 1929, the second of eight children of K V Radhakrishna and Mahalakshmi. He studied medicine in Madras and qualified in 1954. He trave