Apprenticed to W J Square (qv) at Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he was one of six surgeons selected and sent by the British Red Cross Society to aid the wounded. In company with W E B Atthill and J C Galton, he first proceeded

Born in Swansea on October 11th, 1844, the eldest son of the Rev Thomas Thomas, a Congregational minister of that town. Two of his maternal great-uncles, John Davies - after whom he was named - and Thomas Davies, who lost his life at Trafalgar, were naval surgeons under Nelson. Thomas was educated