Stanley Russell was a consultant surgeon in Orpington and Sevenoaks, Kent. He was born in Forest Hill, London, on 11 December 1903. His father, Charles Neville Russell, was a chartered accountant who founded the celebrated firm of C Neville Russell and Company. His mother was Mabell Annie Farrant. He walked every day over the hill to Dulwich College, where he and two friends set up a Christian Union which flourishes to this day. From Dulwich he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified in 1927. After a year as house surgeon at the Albert Dock Hospital he studied for and passed the MB BS, FRCS and the tropical medicine diploma to fit himself for mission work abroad. In 1930 he was sent as a medical missionary to Burma by the Bible Churchman's Missionary Society (now 'Crosslinks'). There he worked as a reader in the diocese of Rangoon, and helped to build a small hospital in Mohnyin, some 100 miles south of Myitkyina in upper Burma, which in due course became the Adelaide Memorial Mission Hospital. His first wife Margaret (née Rowe) died only 18 months after they arrived in Burma. In 1934 he married a missionary nurse, Muriel Selwyn. When the Japanese invaded Burma in 1942, Muriel and their four children were flown from Myitkyina to Dinjan in Assam, India, without him. He led a party of 24 on the long trek through the Hukawng Valley and over the Pangsau Pass in the Naga Hills to Assam - experiences later to be described in two books: *Over the hills and far away and Muddy exodus: a story of the evacuation of Burma*, May 1942 (London, Epworth Press, 1943). Finally reunited with his family in Shillong, Assam, he joined the Welsh Mission (Presbyterian) Hospital in Shillong, where they attended many of the sick and wounded from the fighting in Imphal and Kohima, among them many Chindits. He remained in Shillong until after the war, when he returned to England in 1947 and became a consultant surgeon in Orpington and Sevenoaks Hospitals. He retired from surgery in 1968 and then worked as a locum in Tanzania for a time, and later at a hospital in Nazareth. He continued to be active in the Church and did not retire from being a reader in Orpington until he reached the age of 94. His wife Muriel died in 1995. They had two sons and four daughters, and twelve grandchildren. He died on 12 January 2001 at the age of 97.