Moss Albert was an orthopaedic surgeon in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was born on 18 April 1914 in the East End of London, the son of Barnett Albert and Lilian Albert née Rabinowitz, and studied medicine at University College London. He qualified in 1937. He was a house physician at University College Hospital, a senior house officer and resident surgical officer at Loughborough General Hospital and a surgeon for the Ministry of Pensions Hospitals in Leeds and Liverpool. In 1939, when the England and Wales Register was being recorded, he was a medical practitioner in Bath. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a lieutenant in 1944 and served in India and Burma. In 1950 he immigrated to Canada, to Lethbridge in Alberta, where he was associated with the Campbell Clinic. While in Lethbridge he helped establish the city’s first rehabilitation facility. In 1963 he moved to Edmonton, where he was a surgeon at the Misericordia Hospital until 1971. He then spent five years at the Workers’ Compensation Rehabilitation Clinic. He retired in 1976. In 1949 he married Doreen Davis. Albert died on 31 January 2007 at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife, three sons, Adrian, Russell and Colin, and two grandsons, Jeffrey and Bryan.