David Martin Burgess was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He was born in London on 10 February 1928, the son of Gilbert Beckett Burgess and Margaret Jessie Burgess née Morley. He attended Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS i

Having qualified in New Zealand, Kevin Ross came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1960. He then returned to Hutt, where he was on the staff of the Department of Surgery, Hutt Hospital. He died in late 2000, survived by his wife, Phillippa.

John Harvey Drew was a general surgeon. Born in North Sydney on 21 December 1932, he was the son of Edward George Douglas Anderson Drew and his wife Elizabeth Ida. Her father, John Cappie Shand, was a general practitioner. He was educated at Griffith High School in New South Wales and attended Sydne

Colac lost a great champion of rural health care when Mathew Green died in July 2012. His surgical work along with an active obstetrics practice was invaluable to health services in Colac from 1963 until his retirement in 1999. Mathew was born in St. Kilda in 1931 and spent his early years in

Kenneth Francis Cabrera was born in Sydney on 5 June 1932, the son of an accountant, Francis William Vere Cabrera, and his wife Maud. He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney becoming a committed Christian in his youth, a faith which strongly influenced him throughout his life. He attended the Fo

Dr William Hamilton Cadzow, who was senior visiting urologist at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital from 1986 to 2001, died on 13 September. Bill was a urologist at that hospital almost continuously from 1966 until his full retirement 40 years later. Bill gained his MB BS from the University

Leo Lenaghan, the son of a farmer, was born in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, on 4 November 1930. He attended a primary school at Tourello, where the family had continuously farmed property since settling there in the early 1850's, and then St Patrick's College, Ballarat. He entered Melbourne Univer

Helen Noblett, the first female paediatric surgeon in Australia, was a pioneering and innovative surgeon in Melbourne and then in Bristol, UK. She was brought up in Roma, Queensland and made an impression at Roma State School as a sporty, bright and hard-working scholar who won prizes and a scholars

William Burnett was born on 23 March 1921 and educated at Ballater and Banchory Schools on Deeside, Aberdeenshire. He entered Aberdeen University in 1938 and graduated in medicine with first class honours in 1943. He then spent a year as an assistant with Professor R D Lockhart in the University of

A leading urologist of his own generation and younger brother-in-law of the urologist James Peters (deceased), Jim O'Collins contributed to the remarkable progress in treating the urinary system made during his years in that specialised field of surgery. Born on December 20, 1932 James Patrick O'

Brian O'Connor established the Institute of Orthopaedics at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital at Oswestry. Born in Brisbane on 27 September 1929, his father was Edward O'Connor, an engineer. His mother was Eileen Maloney, the daughter of a ship owner. He was educated at St Joseph'

Don Sheldon was a surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, specialising in gastro-intestinal surgery. He was born on 5 January 1937 in Sydney, the third of the four children of Margret and Mervyn Sheldon. His mother Margret had been a schoolteacher, while his father Mervyn was head of th