Leslie Le Quesne was professor of surgery at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Ashburton, Devon, on 24 August 1919. His father, Charles Thomas Le Quesne, was a prominent barrister, originally from Jersey; his mother, Florence Elizabeth Eileen Pearce Gould, was the granddaughter of Sir A

Roger Miles was born in Liverpool on 1 May 1915, the third child of Edwin Griffith Miles, a Presbyterian minister and Annie Miles, née Jones. Most of his childhood was spent in Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast where he developed his lifelong love of sailing and the sea. He was educated at Bradfield C

Francis Sansome Mitchell-Heggs, the fourth child and third son of Francis Raymond Mitchell Heggs, a medical practitioner, and of Maud (née Sansome) whose father had been surgeon to West Bromwich Hospital, was born at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 16 August 1911. After education at Nottingham High Schoo

Clarence Stanley Day was born in Toronto on 4 March 1908, the second child and first son of Amy Lillian, nee Gilroy, and Walter Arthur Day. He attended Withrow Public School, Humber Collegiate and Riverdale Collegiate. He studied medicine at the University of Toronto and became chief surgical reside

Anthony James Walton, the son of Sir James Walton, consultant surgeon to the London Hospital, was born on 11 September 1913. After education at Rugby School and Cambridge University he became a clinical student at the London Hospital where he won the inpatient dressers' and the Anderson Prizes in hi

Paul Savage was a consultant general surgeon at the Whittington Hospital, London. He was born, with his twin sister, on 28 January 1916 in Cambridge, the second son of Sir Edward Graham Savage, the chief education officer of the London County Council, and May Savage née Thwaites, who was a nurse at

John Charles Alexander Innes qualified with the Conjoint Diploma from the London Hospital in 1939 and graduated MB BS in 1940, obtaining the Fellowship in 1947. After some house appointments he emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, where he practised at Bulawayo, Umtali and Salisbury, holding posts as hon

Robert Leighton Cooke was a consultant surgeon at the Manitoba Clinic, Winnipeg, Canada. He was born on 19 September 1914 in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, the fourth child of Robert Cooke, a general practitioner, and Ellen Cooke née Sunter, a teacher. He remembered making house calls with his father durin

Henry Montague Lewis was a general surgeon at Potchefstroom General Hospital, South Africa. 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

Douglas Vellacott was born on 12 November 1914, in Stoke, Devonport. His father, Harold Fitz Vellacott, MC, FRCS, was a consultant surgeon in Plymouth. His mother, Josephine Sempill, SRN, had been a sister at Poplar Hospital, London. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, then for a year at Ki

Donald Buchanan Brown was surgeon in charge of the wards at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. He was born on 24 June 1910 at Connel, near Oban, Scotland. His family were farmers and ministers, and he was brought up in a Gaelic-speaking household. He attended primary school at Kilmore, south of Oban, w

The son of Lt-Col A Macgregor Rose DSO, RAMC of Aberdeen, Ian Rose was born on 3 December 1912. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he graduated in 1937. After qualification he held several resident posts at Bart's and took his MA degree in 1938