Alec Laylee
Former occupational health doctor Dorset (b 1922; q Liverpool 1952), d
6 April 2003.
Alec served in the Royal Navy from 1941 until hostilities ceased. He
took part in the Salerno landings, numerous Russian arctic convoys, and
the D Day landings, and was mentioned in dispatches. He took up medicine
after the war, had various hospital appointments in Liverpool, and then
the post as 1st medical officer at the Atomic Energy Establishment, Winfrith.
He worked in diabetic clinics at Weymouth, Dorchester, and Bridport, and
actively promoted the diabetes service until his full retirement in January
1987. He took an active part in the postgraduate centre at Dorset County
Hospital, Dorchester. He was a keen gardener and a competitive swimmer
and maintained an international ranking into his 70s. Predeceased in 1995
by his wife, Edna, whom he married in 1948, he leaves two children, Graham
and Ann, and two grandchildren. [David Cove]