Chitral de Silva was a general surgeon in Sri Lanka. He was born in Ceylon on 15 April 1927, the son of S H de Silva, an engineer, and H W de Silva. He came from a medical family: his uncle H O Gunewardene was a radiologist, while two of his brothers (H S de Silva and G L de Silva) and a sister (S M

Anil Kumar Roy was a general surgeon at Humboldt District Hospital, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Jhargram, West Bengal, India on 3 August 1936, the second youngest of eight children. His father, Hari Pada Roy, was a civil servant; his mother, Sabitri Roy née Sarkar, was a house wife. He atte

Born on 15 August 1934, Charles Denys Murphy passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. He lived and worked in Western Australia and died on 10 July 2019 aged 84.

Max Harvey Ellis was an honorary surgeon at Blacktown Hospital, New South Wales. He was born in Bega, New South Wales on 8 September 1933. His father, Ashley Thomas Ellis, was a veterinary surgeon; his mother, Muriel Elizabeth Flora Ellis née Morrison, was the daughter of a grazier. He studied at Du

Graeme Douglas Campbell was born in Eltham, Taranaki, the youngest of five children of dairy farmer Jack Campbell and schoolteacher, Winifred May Heather. Entering a sports-mad family (particularly rugby, tennis and swimming), he grew up on the family farm. After attending Eltham Primary School, Gr

Zuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani was a distinguished professor of surgery in Baghdad. He was born in 1932 and qualified MB, ChB in 1955 in Iraq before travelling to the UK to study for his FRCS. After passing the LMSSA and the fellowship of the college in 1963, he spent some time as a surgical registrar at t

Albert William Russell was a general surgeon in South Australia. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. A long time member of the Australian Medical Association (South Australia Branch), he died on 12 October 2019.

Monoranjan Duari was a general surgeon at Burnley General Hospital. Born in Howrah in India, he moved to the UK in 1954 after graduating in medicine. He did house jobs in Edinburgh and Devon and spent some time at the Hartley Hospital in Colne. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1963, he

Iain Gillespie was a professor of surgery at Manchester University and an honorary consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Manchester, at the centre of the Industrial Revolution, and the location of one of the ‘redbrick universities’, was characterised by the championing of Nonconformist v

Sukh Dev Singh passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. He was living in High Wycombe when he died on 4 March 2018.

Colac lost a great champion of rural health care when Mathew Green died in July 2012. His surgical work along with an active obstetrics practice was invaluable to health services in Colac from 1963 until his retirement in 1999. Mathew was born in St. Kilda in 1931 and spent his early years in

John Hartley Williams died on the 6 June 2016 on the eve of his 90th year in Hobart. He was, for many years, one of the corner stones of the Department of Surgery of the Launceston General Hospital and our Fellowship mourns his death. John Williams qualified first as a pharmacist after the WW II,