Became Hospital Assistant to the Forces on May 19th, 1815, and was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 5th Foot on June 30th, 1825. He was promoted Surgeon to the 60th Foot on May 29th, 1840, to Staff Surgeon (1st Class) on September 29th, 1848, and to Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals on February

Born in Paris on 23 February 1883, the son of Pierre Bazy (1853-1934), a leading urologist who was a member of the Académie de Médecine from 1913 and the Académie des Sciences from 1921, Louis Bazy studied at the Faculté de Médecine of Paris, graduated in 1910, and was promoted to consultant rank in

Frederick Henry Rowland ('Fred') was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy. He was born in Merton on 28 May 1943, the eldest son of Frederick Rowland, a plumber, and Cissie Florence Minnie Rowland née Shelley. He was educated at All Saints School, south Wimbledon, and Rutlish School, Merton, where h

Charles Gordon Shaw was born in Melbourne on 9 January 1885 and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University where he graduated MB BS in 1907, proceeding to the MD degree in 1910. Rowing was his favourite sport and he was in the winning eights both at school and also at Ormond

Born on 18 January 1884 he was educated at Sydney Grammar School, matriculating in 1901. Early in his medical course he showed his interest in practical work and shared the Haswell Prize for practical biology, winning the John Harris scholarship in his third year. He was top in the fourth and fifth

Born in 1863 in a family of ten children, Drew studied at University College Hospital and qualified in 1884. After qualifying he held various posts including those of house surgeon and obstetric assistant at University College Hospital, clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, dem

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 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 at Gravesend on 26 November 1869, he qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1892, and was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RAMC on 29 January 1894 and promoted Captain on 29 January. He saw active service in China in 1900, was mentioned in dispatches and won the medal and clasp. He wa

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

Brigadier Graham Stock was an adviser in orthopaedic surgery to the director general of Army Medical Services and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich. He was born on 21 February 1937 in Chesterfield, the son of Charles Edward Stock, a foreman at Cheste

Lieutenant General Malik Shaukat Hasan was director of surgery in the Pakistan Army and a pioneer of cardiothoracic surgery in his country. He was born on 12 May 1919 in Amritsar, India, the third son of a middle class Muslim cloth merchant; his paternal grandfather was from Kashmir and his maternal