Rankin Hay was a neurosurgeon at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine. 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

Andrew Francis Masson was director of the emergency department and subsequently chairman of ambulatory care at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27 March 1927, the son of Ethel Mabel Masson née Thwaites and Andrew Francis Masson and grew up in

Alexander Grant Macintyre was a family medicine specialist and general surgeon in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Lucknow, Ontario, in 1930 and grew up on a farm. In 1948 he began studying medicine at the University of Toronto, but moved to England and Oxford University in 1951 on a schola

Witold Rudowski was an eminent Polish surgeon. He qualified in medicine in 1943, studying at a secret medical faculty that had been set up during Nazi occupation. He then worked in the Dzieciatka Jesus Hospital in Warsaw until 1947, where the neurosurgery department was run by Jerzego Chorobskiego.

George Reginald Crawshaw was born on 9 July 1916. He studied medicine at Manchester University and qualified MB ChB in 1939. He was OC No 2 (Brit) Mobile Neurosurgical Unit of the RAMC and then became a civilian medical practitioner with the Military Hospital, Colchester. After gaining his FRCS i

Gaston Arthurs was a consultant neurosurgeon and general surgeon who worked in Australia and Zambia. He was born on 10 March 1917 in Fulham, the son of an Italian father, Guiseppe Nunzio Artuso (the family name was anglicised to Arthurs in 1926) and a mother with a French background, Lilian Blanch B

Marcel Schreiber was born in Sydney in 1910 and graduated with first class honours from the University there in 1931. After serving in junior posts in Australia he came to England and took the conjoint diploma and the Fellowship in 1938. He returned immediately to Sydney and was appointed to the Roy

John Kelly was born in Bombay in 1902, the son of an army officer. He was educated in Ireland, proceeding to the University College Cork for the medical course and graduating with the MB of the National University of Ireland in 1925, having won a clinical prize in surgery and the Blayney Scholarship

Trained at the North Middlesex Hospital during 1930-32 as a general surgeon, he also practised neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. He became a frequent visitor to European and Russian clinics, attending surgical conferences, and was one of the early visitors to Moscow, when brain operations were carri

Born at Nhill in the west of Victoria in 1894, he moved to Melbourne with his parents at an early age. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1916. He joined the Australian Imperial Force immediately, without serving any resident hospital appointmen

Donald Dixon McKenzie was born in Colac, Australia, in 1902, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. In 1905 the family moved to New Zealand. He was educated at Wanganui Technical High School and followed his two elder brothers to Otago University where he qualified in medicine in 1924. After

Born in Adelaide on February 8 1896, the son of a schoolmaster, Leonard Lindon lost his father when he was only one year old. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School where his uncle was headmaster and then proceeded to St Peter's College, starting his medical course at the University of Adelaide i