Kenneth Dalliwall was a much respected consultant orthopaedic surgeon who served many hospitals in the north east London area over the years. He worked at the Whipps Cross, Connaught and Wanstead hospitals, and at the Walthamstow and Loughton Children's hospitals. He was also an assistant surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital and practised privately in Harley Street. Retiring at the age of 65 in 1978, he continued in medico-legal practice for five years. He was born in Mussoorie, India, on 25 March 1913, the elder of two sons of Har (Harry) Bhajan Singh Dalliwall, a barrister, and his wife, Emma Elizabeth née Colville. The family went to England in 1915, but sadly the father died when Kenneth was a young boy. From Forest School, Snaresbrook, Kenneth went to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied natural science. He proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical years. His brother also entered medicine and became a general practitioner in Southport. Kenneth's years as a student saw many structural changes at Bart's in West Smithfield. The surgical block with five operating theatres, one on each floor, had already been completed in 1930 with a complement of 250 beds. So dressers were allocated to clerk and look after patients allocated to them. A year before he qualified an equivalent medical block was built to the south of the square - the so-called 'King George V block' - that was opened by Queen Mary. Students had excellent tuition in surgery from George Gask and Sir James Paterson Ross, and one of the chief assistants, John P Hosford, a general surgeon, who at that time had an interest in orthopaedics. Respite from Ken's studies came by sailing with United Hospitals, at Burnham-on-Crouch, a form of exercise and relaxation that never deserted him throughout his years as a consultant and into retirement. After qualifying, he held house appointments at the Kent and Sussex hospitals. He volunteered to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps after a further post at the Seaman's Hospital, Greenwich. As a surgical specialist with the rank of major, he went to France shortly after D-Day and served in field hospitals during the Allies' advance in Normandy. An interest in trauma was ignited during these years and prepared him for his future specialist career in orthopaedics. Towards the end of the war he was sent to the Far East. Japan surrendered when he was on board a ship off Singapore. He went into prisoner of war camps to help poorly nourished Australian soldiers, and for the next few months accompanied many of them back to Australia. He remained with the troops in hospitals in Sydney until he returned to England. He was demobilised in 1947, but continued a strong connection with the Territorial Army as a colonel commanding the 57 Middlesex General Hospital at Harrow. For these services he was decorated with a TD and bar. Having gained the FRCS in 1943 during the war years, he continued registrar training in general surgery at the Dreadnought Hospital before specialising in orthopaedics at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children at Great Ormond Street. Here he worked for, and was influenced by, H Jackson Burrows and Sidney Higgs. Burrows later became dean of the Institute of Orthopaedics, Postgraduate Medical Federation, University of London and Higgs was a great organiser, but very demanding of his trainees in his meticulous attention to detail. In 1953, and at the age of 40, he was enjoying a successful medical career and a thriving social life. Through an interest in drama he met Margaret Faulds, a personnel officer who worked in the City of London. At the New Lindsay Theatre Club in London's Notting Hill, they discovered a mutual interest in drama, a love of wining and dining and in conversation. In the early years of their friendship, Margaret needed a crash course in the art of sailing. On one of these occasions, after Margaret had cooked a superb meal in the tiny galley of a small sailing boat, Ken proposed. They married in Lancashire on 25 November 1957. Margaret retired from her City job in 1961 in order to support Ken and worked as an administrator and secretary in his private practice. After working all week, they dashed up to Norfolk for a period of rest and relaxation. Much of this time was spent sailing and with friends in the East Anglian Cruising Club. In 1962 they bought *Betty*, a 21 foot twin-berthed, wooden sailing cruiser. Before he retired he was a member of many yacht clubs: the Royal Burnham and Royal Corinthian at Burnham-on-Crouch, the Littleship Club, London, and the Cambridge Cruising Club. He was a life member of the Naval and Military Club. In 1984, when Hawthorn Cottage, Thurn, Norfolk, came on the market, they moved from Essex to enjoy Norfolk all year round. They moved Betty to a mooring at Boundary Farm, Oby, and became popular members of the local community: their zest for life contributed greatly to the village's social calendar. Kenneth Dalliwall remained a true gentleman, a wonderful husband, a man who enjoyed the company of friends. As a man of faith he believed that death was not the end of his existence. He died on 28 June 2010, and was survived by his wife of 53 years, Margaret. One Norfolk friend in a tribute at his funeral held at St Edmund's Church, Thurne, Norfolk described his long years of work as 'a long dedication to his practice and patients that is another testimony to one of Ken's greatest qualities - his sense of duty and loyalty'.