Born on 8 April 1897 in Melbourne son of Charles Robert Rogers and Janet Chant, he was educated in Melbourne until 1915, when at the age of 18 he joined the Australian Naval Transport Service in which he served until 1917. He then came to the Middlesex Hospital to resume his interrupted medical studies only to enable him to join the RNVR as a surgeon probationer and to serve in destroyers until the end of the war. Returning to the Middlesex he qualified in July 1920 and became a house surgeon to John Murray. During this time he was awarded a certificate of distinction as a prosector for the College and the University of London, which interest in anatomy he maintained for the rest of his life, becoming a Fellow of the Anatomical Society. This was followed by a period of five years taken up with time in general practice, as a ship's surgeon, and in visiting clinics abroad. In January 1926 he was appointed the first full-time assistant in the surgical unit of the Welsh National School of Medicine, being promoted to senior assistant in June 1929, and subsequently assistant director under Professor A W Sheen first occupant of the chair of surgery. In 1934 he went to the British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, working for a year under Professor Grey Turner, and returned to Cardiff in 1935 to succeed Professor Sheen as professor, the post he occupied from then on until the time of his death. His surgical interests tended to be more and more in the field of neuro-surgery, in which he built up a world-wide reputation, particularly in connection with the surgery of spinal tumours. The achievement of which he was most proud was his founding of the Welsh Surgical Society, of which he was President from 1953 to 1958, which brought together the surgeons of Wales and made him their beloved and respected friend. He had always maintained his connection with the medical branch of the RNVR by holding a permanent commission, so that on the outbreak of war in 1939 he was mobilised and for a considerable time served at the Royal Naval Hospital at Barrow Gurney near Bristol. Later in the war he went to the Far East including the Australian station as a Surgeon-Captain. In May 1946 he returned to civilian life in Cardiff. He continued his connection with the Royal Navy as civilian consultant in neurosurgery. As a provincial surgeon he was for many years a member of the Moynihan Club, being its secretary 1940-50 and ultimately its President 1950-52. At the College he was a member of Council 1943-59, being Vice-President for 1953-55, a member of the Court of Examiners in 1943-44 and from 1946 to 1951 an examiner in anatomy for the Primary, a Hunterian Pro-fessor in 1935, an Arris and Gale lecturer in 1947, an Arnott demonstrator in 1952, and Bradshaw lecturer in 1954. He was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1951-52, of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons 1948-54, of the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1960-61, of the Section of Surgery of the British Medical Association in 1953, and of the Cardiff Medical Society in 1954-55. He was particularly pleased when in 1952 the University of Melbourne conferred on him the degree of MD *honoris causa*. Always a keen supporter of the International Society of Surgery, he was British delegate from 1947 and finally Vice-President. He examined in surgery for the Universities of Cardiff, London, Glasgow, Belfast, Bristol, the National University of Ireland and for Trinity College, Dublin. Surgeon to the United Cardiff Hospitals, he was also adviser in surgery to the Welsh Regional Hospital Board. Most methodical and hard working he contributed extensively to medical literature and acted as editor of Treves's *Surgical Applied Anatomy* for four editions between 1939 and 1955 and of Grey Turner's *Modern Operative Surgery* 4th edition in 1955. A quiet man of strong religious convictions, his innate kindliness and unfailing courtesy gained for him the implicit trust and affection not only of his patients but also of his colleagues and a wide circle of friends from many walks of life. It led him to give unsparingly of his time and substance to many charitable causes, and he was for many years medical officer of the Glamorgan Branch of the British Red Cross. An Australian by birth, he made so notable a place for himself in British surgery that people often forgot a fact of which he was naturally proud. A keen motorist he delighted in all forms of travel. He married in 1952, comparatively late in life, Mrs Barbara Ainsley the widow of Lt-Col J K Ainsley, Royal Artillery. They had a daughter, Anne. He died on 10 October 1961 aged 64 survived by his wife, his daughter Anne and his stepson Clive.