Peter John Fenn was a general surgeon at Maidstone Hospital. He was born on 6 May 1930 in Penge, London and spent his childhood in the Bromley area, attending Bromley Grammar School. As a child, he watched the Battle of Britain going on above his head and this sparked his first love, of aircraft. On

Shashikant Chaturbhai Patel – usually known as Sashi – was born on 18 March 1939 in Eldoret, Kenya. His father was Chaturbhai Patel, headmaster of a primary school and his mother’s maiden name was Maniben. He attended Allidina Visram High School in Mombasa before moving to the UK at the age of 16 an

After qualifying MB BS at the University of Adelaide, Peter Christopher Manessis held a number of posts at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, ending as a surgical registrar 1966-67. He moved in 1968 to a similar post at the Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, and in 1969 at t

Joseph Harris obtained a BSc (anatomy honours) in London in 1958, qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1961 and the FRCS in 1970. He studied at University College and University College Hospital, London, and there became lecturer in surgery and honorary surgical registrar. He had also worked as re

Ambrose Wasunna was head of the department of surgery at the University of Nairobi and director of the programme on health technologies at the World Health Organization (WHO). He was born on 4 August 1938 in the village of Nyahera, Nyzana province, Kenya and attended Maseno High School and then Make

Aldric Michael Chong Ping was a general surgeon in Ontario, Canada. He was born on 25 September 1939, the son of Michael and Joan Chong Ping, and studied medicine at University College, Dublin, Ireland, qualifying in 1963. He gained his FRCS in 1970. He practised general surgery in Ontario, and l

Kerry Larkin was a consultant surgeon in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. 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

Richard Turner Waddington was a consultant general surgeon in Barnsley. 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

Neal Hamilton Masters was a general surgeon who lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa. He gained his FRCS in 1970. He died on 5 July 2013.

Ronald Sahoy was a pioneering cardiothoracic and general surgeon in the Caribbean. He was born on 3 January 1940, in Essequibo, British Guiana (now Guyana). His father was Kunandan Ramdial Sahoy, a business man who owned a trucking service, and his mother was Baidwattee née Narayan, who had worked a

David Robert Bainbridge was a general practitioner who lived in Cuckfield, West Sussex.

Born on 18 December 1939 in London, David Jagelman was educated at St Joseph's College, Beulah Hill and King's College London, before going on to Westminster Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1963 he was surgical registrar, research lecturer and senior registrar at the Metropolitan, Westm