Trauma Surgeon Team 3
- Born 1930
- Educated Hurstpierr Point School
- Medical education at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School
- Met his wife Rita at Chichester when working at Chichester Hospital
- Married in 1957
- Worked at hospitals including Chichester Hospital, The Lord Mayor Trelors Hospital (Cripples Hospital) Alton, Hampshire and in Aberdeen
- Became a consultant at the Birmingham Accident Hosptial in 1965
- He was a consultant on Team 3 joining Peter London and Deana
- Of note Ken Boffard (the doyan of trauma surgery in South Africa) was a house surgeon on Team 3 at that time
- He left to go to Saudi Arabia in 1980
- He was born with talipes and had a Symes amputation by Symes himself at the age of 2 after which he work a prosthesis
- He had two children, Martin who is an ENT surgeon in Worcester and Keith who is a fund manager in Montreal
- His publications included thromboembolism and DVT.
- His non-medical interests included music and reading.
- He was a keen shooter and shot at Bisley when at St Mary’s Hospital
- He died in 2010