David Askey Lammiman
BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3821 (Published 18 September 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3821
- Campbell Mackenzie
David Askey Lammiman had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy, having joined the service in 1959 after house jobs at Redhill County Hospital and Barts. He trained as an anaesthetist, working at Southampton, Liverpool, and Oxford. and served in HMS Chaplet, HMS Eagle, and finally in HMY Britannia during the Queen’s silver jubilee world tour. As a consultant anaesthetist he worked at the Royal Naval Hospitals in Haslar, Malta, and Gibraltar. During the Falklands conflict he had the important role of director of medical personnel at the Ministry of Defence and later became medical officer in charge of Royal Naval Hospitals Plymouth and then Portsmouth. Before his final appointment he became surgeon rear admiral of support medical services.
David was an accomplished sportsman and played rugby for Leicester, United Hospitals and Combined Services and tennis for the Royal Navy. He was a keen fly fisherman.
He is survived by his wife, Caroline, and by his first wife, Sheila, and their four children.
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Former deputy surgeon general and medical director general (Royal Navy) (b 1932; q St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, 1957; QHS, CB LVO, FFARCS), d 27 January 2009.