Anthony Owen Parker gained MB BS at Sydney University in 1942. He was resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital in 1942-43 and at Prince Henry Hospital 1943-44. He came to London and in 1951-53 he was surgical registrar at Poplar Hospital. He was surgical registrar at Princess Beatrice Hospital in 1953-54. In 1952 he gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He returned to Australia and was clinical assistant to the Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred Hospitals in Sydney. He was honorary surgeon to Lidcombe Hospital and Fairfield District Hospital, Sydney. He served in the second world war and was in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1947. He was a Captain in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps. He was a member of the Australian Medical Association. He died in March 1973. See below for an expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 08/07/2024: Anthony Owen (Tony) Parker was a general surgeon at Fairfield Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales. He was born on 21 June 1920 in Sydney, the third child and second son of Richard Leslie Parker, a pharmacist who later studied medicine at Sydney University, and Jeannie Elizabeth Parker née Mollison. Tony attended Cranbrook School and then studied medicine at Sydney University. He was a gifted student and obtained his undergraduate degrees with honours in 1942 at 22. His brother, Richard (Dick) Gray Vernon Parker, also qualified as a doctor from Sydney University. Tony served as a resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital from 1942 to 1943 and at the Prince Henry Hospital from 1943 to 1944. On 21 January 1943, he joined the Royal Australian Naval Reserve as a surgeon lieutenant and on 19 April 1944 he was mobilised. He served on vessels including HMAS *Lachlan* and on shore bases including HMAS Penguin and HMAS Rushcutter and overseas on HMAS Ladava in Papua New Guinea. He was demobilised on 6 May 1947. From 1951 to 1954 he was a surgical registrar at Poplar Hospital and the Princess Beatrice Hospital in London. He gained his FRCS in 1952. He returned to Australia in 1955 and became a clinical assistant at the Royal North Shore and Royal Prince Alfred hospitals in Sydney. He joined Lidcombe Hospital as an honorary surgeon and was subsequently appointed as an honorary general surgeon at the new Fairfield District Hospital in Sydney, his longest held post. At Fairfield, by 1960, Tony was an honorary surgeon and became chair of the honorary medical board. He served the hospital well, visiting all departments and was generous with his time lecturing student nurses. He spent more time on duty and cheerfully took on the overflow of public patients. After 12 years of service, his reappointment was withheld by the hospital board, without reason. Our hospital staff (privy to any professional misconduct or probity issue had such existed) were outraged and petitioned the board to reinstate him. The board refused to receive the petition and warned Tony against upsetting staff. Tony was terminated without appeal at Christmas 1972. Employment options were few. He became a captain in the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, performing army medicals at No 2 Military Hospital at Ingleburn. His poor luck continued though, as in December 1972 a new Labor government abandoned peacetime conscription and the medical examinations of young men balloted. He was seen by staff and colleagues as an outstanding mentor, a fine lecturer, a great conversationalist over lunch, a raconteur and one who enjoyed the company of young people. My recollection of him is of a highly intelligent man and an intellectual by habit. Tony and Janette Audrey (Jan) Woodley married in 1957 and set up a home in Elizabeth Bay. They had a son, Anthony Gayner Parker. In 1964, Jan became ill and required psychiatric admission. In subsequent years, Tony led a solitary life. Given his lifestyle, he could not care for his son, which grieved him. In 1970, Tony remarried a resident medical officer from Fairfield Hospital, Violet Bee Kian The. They separated in 1973. Tony died on 25 March 1973, aged 52, of myocardial infarction and coronary atherosclerosis. I attributed his early death to broken heart syndrome.