No information is available about Leo Charles McCarthy beyond that contained in issues of the *New Zealand Medical Register*. He qualified MB, ChB New Zealand in 1939, obtained the Fellowship of the College in 1948 and that of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1951, and that at some time

After the war Alan Johnson came to England to specialise in surgery and returned to Taupo, New Zealand after he had passed the FRCS in 1948. He died on 10 January 1995.