Air commodore Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Brown was a consultant in burns and plastic surgery in the RAF. He was born in London on 11 September 1925. His father, Oscar Frank Brown, was director of telecommunications research during the Second World War and prominent in the development of radar. His mother, Dori

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

Major General Brian Livesey was an ENT surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich and an honorary surgeon to HM The Queen. He was born on 17 December 1928 and studied medicine at Bristol University medical school. He qualified in 1952. He gained his diploma in laryngology and otology

Dudley Churchill-Davidson was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, London. He was born on 11 May 1927, the son of Frederick Churchill-Davidson and Marie Peacock Churchill-Davidson née Jacques. His father, a University of Edinburgh-educated doctor, had

George Smith was a brigadier in the Royal Army Dental Corps. 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

Ken Oyston was an orthopaedic surgeon in the Royal Air Force and at Halifax Royal Infirmary. He was born on 13 January 1925 on Tyneside. His father, Harry Oyston, studied mathematics at Durham University and served briefly in the First World War as a second lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers

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

Born 9 January 1867 at the East Cornwall Bank, Launceston, Cornwall, the first child of John Wimble Wilkinson, the bank accountant, and Emma Sophia Shilson his wife. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, and at University College, London. At University College Hospital he held resid

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.