Peter Craig was a major general in the Royal Army Medical Corps and director of defence and Army surgery. 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

David Garrick was head of the accident and emergency department at Grantham Hospital. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa and studied medicine in Moscow, qualifying in 1972. He went to London and gained his FRCS in 1979. Prior to his appointment as a consultant in Grantham he worke

Jeffrey Jackson was born in Bolton on 20 January 1925, studied medicine at Manchester University, graduating in 1949, and held various junior surgical posts at Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge. Comparatively late in his career, in 1974, he was appointed the first consultant in accident and emergency

David Simpson was a consultant in accident and emergency medicine. He was born in London in 1954 and entered King’s College Hospital for medical training. He had considered a career as an engineer, but changed his mind after early training in this discipline. After gaining his FRCS, he became a su