Dr (or "Mr") Thomas Scotland

Scotland graduated in medicine from Edinburgh University in 1971. He became FRCS Edin in 1975. He developed an interest in World War 1 while a student. He trained in orthopaedic surgery at Aberdeen. After retiring, he pursued his interest in the Great War and had become a frequent visitor to the Western Front. He led cycling expeditions to the Battlefields. He delivered lectures on the surgery of the war at many national and international meetings and had made a particular study of the Aberdonian surgeon Sir Henry Gray, who played a pivotal role in the development of orthopaedic surgery on the Western Front.