Born 6 January 1928, Brian Seth-Smith died in Guernsey on 11 January 2019, having worked there for many years as Guernsey’s only orthopaedic surgeon. When he first came to Guernsey in May 1960, 15 years after the German Occupation ended, there were only five surgeons and five small general practices

Brendan Dooley was one of four boys, all born at home to James and Catherine Dooley. Two of his brothers became dentists, while the oldest, Desmond, became a specialist obstetrician gynaecologist in Brisbane. Following in his brother's footsteps, Brendan Dooley graduated from the University of Melbo

Geoff Cutler was a surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 29 February 1920 in Manly, a suburb of Sydney. He was the second of the three sons of Arthur and Ruby Cutler. Their father was a sales representative for Remington, who had been a crack shot and twice winner at Bisley. He was k

Raymond Kirk, known throughout his entire professional life as ‘Jerry’, was a late entrant to medicine, having left school at 16 and serving for four years in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, before becoming one of the most celebrated surgical educators of his day through his outstanding teac

Two references written in1956 for the young Robert Dykes, after he had worked for a year as a Surgical Registrar at Tilbury hospital in London, aptly described him. Mr W. H. Hamer, Consultant Surgeon, wrote - “Mr Dykes...has without any question been the best Registrar we have ever had.” The other,

Keith was born in Melbourne October 2, 1925 and died in Birmingham, Alabama on August 28, 2015. He was a man of enormous zest for life with a wide range of interests and friends that he maintained until the end which came rather suddenly when an infection supervened on top of a long battle with c

Geoffrey Wynne-Jones, the youngest child of Frederick Arthur Jones, a monumental mason, and Catherine Emily Parker was born in Hawera. He had two brothers, David and Richard, and a sister, Elizabeth. Geoffrey commenced school at Hawera Main School and subsequently attended Hawera Technical High Scho