Max Hillel

Former general practitioner Dukinfield, Cheshire (b Baghdad 1917; q The London Hospital 1945), died from aortic valve disease on 4 April 2004.

Max came to England in 1934 to study English before entering The London Hospital Medical College. Wartime studies involved many nights of firewatch duty on the hospital's roof. After house jobs he started work at Scunthorpe Memorial Hospital as resident emergency surgeon. There he met his wife, Doreen, a ward sister. They married in 1951 and moved to Dukinfield, where they worked together in singlehanded general practice until he retired in 1985. He leaves Doreen; four children; and seven grandchildren.