Peter Christie Anderson was an orthopaedic surgeon and a specialist in rehabilitation medicine in Perth, Western Australia. He was born in Sheffield on 23 September 1929, the eldest son of James Christie Anderson, a urological surgeon and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Mary Ann Anderson née Warner. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Queen's College, Cambridge, and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1954. He was a resident medical officer at Middlesex Hospital and then a demonstrator in anatomy at Sheffield University from 1955 to 1956. After a house surgeon post in Cheltenham, and at a time when, as he writes, 'Australian graduates went to England', he decided to take the opposite route and go to Perth for his surgical training. But, having failed at his first attempt to take the fellowship examination in Melbourne in 1959, he returned to England. He was a registrar in Kettering and passed the FRCS in 1960. He then spent two years as a registrar training in orthopaedic surgery at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital in Mansfield. In 1963 he returned to Western Australia, as a senior registrar in the accident and emergency department at the Royal Perth Hospital, and then a registrar in orthopaedics. From 1964 to 1975 he was a specialist in orthopaedics at the Repatriation General Hospital, Perth, and, from 1965 to 1972, an assistant surgeon in the orthopaedic department at the Princess Margaret Hospital. From 1965 to 1976 he was also an assistant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Perth Hospital. During this period he also served as a surgeon with the Australian Army in Vietnam. In 1976 he became director of medical services at the department of social security's rehabilitation service in Perth, a post he held for 10 years. In 1980 he became a fellow of the Australian College of Rehabilitation Medicine. He continued in private practice as a specialist in orthopaedics and rehabilitation medicine until 1997. Outside medicine, he was interested in golf and sailing. In 1958 he married Mary Margaret Humphrey, a nurse. They had three daughters (Judith, Susan and Dianne) and three sons (John, Geoffrey and Martin). Peter Christie Anderson died on 21 November 2009, aged 80.