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David Taylor
returned to India
a married man and joined the Indian Army Medical Service. At that time
he was one of very few eye specialists in the Indian army and travelled a
great deal in his work.
During World War II he was sent
out to a Military Hospital in Aden and
later returned to India to
be the Commanding Officer of a hospital at Cocanada (Kakinada today).
In 1947 the British Officers
in the Indian Army were sent home and he found a job in General Practice at
the English market town of Wisbech, where the practice wanted a doctor with
knowledge of eyes.
Shortly afterwards the
National Health Service was introduced to Britain
and he was appointed to be the local Consultant Opthalmic Surgeon on the
strength of his practical experience in India.
He was the first eye surgeon
that the Wisbech and Doddington hospitals had had, and gained considerable
local recognition for his cataract work and the number of local people whose
sight he restored. He was way ahead of his time in the use of local
anaesthetic for this and other eye operations.
He worked out his career in
this area and died aged 76 in the North
Cambs Hospital
at Wisbech in 1983.
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Published in the year 2000 by his son, Robin
Taylor.
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