Gerald De Lacey was born 2 December 1910 at Dowlais in South Wales and did his preclinical studies at the University of Wales, going to the London Hospital in 1930. He was surgical dresser to Sir Henry Souttar, Alan Perry, Russell Howard and George Neligan, and clinical clerk to Sir John Parkinson and Sir Robert Hutchison. He qualified in 1933 and, for a brief time, was a surgical assistant before becoming RSO at King George Hospital, Ilford and Surgical Registrar at Bethnal Green Hospital. We have no information about his subsequent career, except that in retirement he moved to Portugal. He died 9 September 2001.