Keith Okey was a general surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Markandu Thambirajah was a surgeon in Hudson, New York. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Anthony Higham was a surgeon from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Manchester University graduating MB ChB in 1962. Five years later, in 1967, he passed the fellowship of the college and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He died in 2013.

Mohamed El-Sheikh was a professor of surgery in Alexandria, Egypt. He gained his FRCS in 1967 and was a Hunterian professor in 1997. He died on 24 June 2008.

Joseph Attard (known to all as ‘Pep’) was a consultant general surgeon in Malta. He was born on 14 September 1932 in Senglea, a town in the Grand Harbour area of Malta. His father was Caesar Attard, a general practitioner and junior surgeon at the main civil hospital of Malta in Floriana. His mother

David Thomas was a consultant surgeon at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and Derbyshire Children's Hospital. He was descended from four generations of Welsh coalminers. His father, Richard, had left Wales in the 1920s, looking for work, and ended up in Watford, where he met and subsequently married the w

Nani Gopal Kundu was a surgeon who worked in Sydney, Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He died on 1 August 2014.

Roger Lallemand was a consultant surgeon at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey. He was born on 21 September 1935 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia, the son of Joseph François Lallemand (from Ciney, Belgium) and Gladys Ann Lallemand née Else (from Bexley, Kent). Roger started school in Nkana aged four, but when

Purnendu Kumar Chattopadhyaya was a surgeon in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He died on 11 December 2014.

David Cairns was a consultant general surgeon in the High Wycombe Health District. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and graduated in 1962. After house jobs in vascular surgery and urology in London at the Middlesex Hospital and St Mark’s, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. H

Komaluru Radhakrishna Visvanathan, known as ‘Vishy’, was a general surgeon in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India on 3 September 1929, the second of eight children of K V Radhakrishna and Mahalakshmi. He studied medicine in Madras and qualified in 1954. He trave

John Craven was a consultant general surgeon at York District Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk