Born 13 November 1882, the eldest child of William Richardson Edmond, MRCS 1875, then practising at Chew Magna, Somerset, and his wife, *née* Square. Dr W R Edmond moved to Camberwell in 1893, and W S Edmond was educated there at Wilson's Grammar School. He took his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and served as resident surgical officer at the London Temperance Hospital. Appointment as senior house surgeon at the Royal Salop Infirmary, Shrewsbury, led to his settling in practice there in 1912 and he became surgeon to the Infirmary in 1918. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a major in the RAMC, at first as a surgical specialist at No 18 General Hospital in France. He was invalided home in 1916, and placed in charge of No 2 division of the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot. He was also on the staff of Princess Christian's Red Cross Hospital, and later surgeon in charge of the Ministry of Pensions orthopaedic clinic. After resuming his practice at Shrewsbury he became also consulting surgeon to the Forester Memorial Hospital at Much Wenlock, the Broseley Hospital and the King Edward VII Sanatorium, Broseley. He was president of the Shropshire and Mid-Wales branch of the British Medical Association in 1928. Edmond married on 10 April 1918 Margaret Ellen, eldest daughter of Major-General Sir John Headlam, KBE, CB, DSO, who survived him with three daughters. He retired in 1945 to Womerton, All Stretton, a few miles south of Shrewsbury, and died there suddenly on 8 January 1950, aged 67. He was buried at Woolstaston, Salop. Will Edmond was a popular man, noted for his sardonic wit. His recreation was dry-fly fishing in the south Shropshire streams, and he also enjoyed climbing in the French and Swiss Alps.