Barry was born on 19 March 1903 at Cork in Ireland, the elder son of Jerome Barry, Fleet Surgeon RN, and was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Cork, Clongowes Wood College and University College Cork. After graduation and a period as a house surgeon at Cork he followed his father into t

John Carter was an army surgeon, based for much of his career in Munster, Germany. He was born on 17 December 1929 in Croydon. After national service in the Royal Artillery in Malaya, he studied medicine at King's College, London, qualifying in 1956. Subsequently, he held house appointments at King'

Major General Anil Krishna Barat was head of the department of surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College, Poona. He was born in Krishnanagar, West Bengal, on 1 February 1915. His father, Sadananda Barat, was an administrator in the railway service; his mother was Anupama, the daughter of a lawyer.

Major General William Pryn was director of Army surgery and a consultant surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. 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

Colonel David C Wherry was a professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland. He was born on 18 December 1926, in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the son of Kenneth Spicer Wherry and Marjorie Wherry née Colwell. His father was an important politica

Shri Rameshwar was professor of surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College, Poona, India. Born on 10 October 1904 in Meerut, he was the eldest of the four sons of Choudry Girver Singh Rameshwar, an agriculturalist, and his wife Kaur née Ram whose father was also involved in agriculture. Educated at

Group Captain William Harries was a surgeon in the RAF. Born in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire on 17 October 1921, he was the oldest child of Ernest Henry Lloyd Harries, a farmer, and his wife Priscilla Winifred née Griffiths. He was educated at Treffgarne Owen Council School and Haverfordwest Grammar School

Colonel Noel Peters was a military surgeon, general surgeon and later consultant oncologist at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich. He was born in Hong Kong on 20 December 1931 to Rose Margaret Peters née Shea and William Henry Peters. He was the youngest child and only son with three el

Born in London on May 1st, 1785. His grandfather, a Scotsman, served with the army at the Battle of the Boyne. His father succeeded his maternal uncle, a retired Naval Surgeon, as manager of a business for the sale of lead plaister. Guthrie learnt French from the Abbé Noel when quite a boy, and spok

Jeff Mander was Bendigo's first Orthopaedic surgeon where he was in practice from 1969 to 2002. He was instrumental in the accreditation of orthopaedic training in Bendigo with the first trainee commencing in 1989. He was born and raised in Reading, the only child of George and Constance Mander.

Bijeta Chaudhuri was born in 1899 at Shillong to a Brahmin family from Sylhet. He spent his youth in Shantiniketan, matriculated from Patiala and passed his intermediate science exams from Dyal Singh College, Lahore. He graduated MB from Grant Medical College, Lahore, in 1922 then came to London for

William Alexander Duncan Drummond was born in Cape Town on 16 September 1901 where his father was then working for the Anglo-American Tobacco Company. The family later returned to England. Having initially studied engineering and lost two fingers of his left hand in an accident at the Liverpool ship