George Feggetter (nonfiction)

George Young Feggetter (1905 – 2000) was a British urologist who served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War 2.

Feggetter became interested in urology after working with George Grey Turner (1877–1951) in his native Newcastle. Feggetter subsequently furthered his uro- logical training with a visit to Alexander von Lichtenberg (1880–1949) in Berlin in 1933, who had pioneered intravenous urography. Feggetter then worked under Edward Canny Ryall (1865-1934) and with Terence Millin (1903–1980) who were pioneering Transurethral Resection of Prostate (TURP) at All Saints Hospital in London before the war. He published one of the earliest British papers on TURP9 and in 1936 wrote a review on bladder outflow obstruction whilst First Surgical Assistant to the British Postgraduate Medical School.

On the outbreak of war Feggetter worked in the Emergency Medical Service on the home front then joined the RAMC in 1942. He was posted to North Africa as part of Operation Torch.

Feggetter bequeathed his war diary ("Diary of an RAMC Surgeon at War, 1942-1946") to the Imperial War Museum. The detailed is a detailed account of his activities during the war. Excerpts appear in the War Diary series in the Gnomon Chronicles:

• War Diaries (May 23) (nonfiction)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• War Diaries (May 23) (nonfiction)

External links

• Urologists to the Desert Rats: Serendipitous Skills of the World War II Urologists by Peter Grice, Jonathan Goddard (Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester. LE5 4PW) (PDF)

• "Diary of an RAMC Surgeon at War, 1942-1946", by Lieutenant Colonel George Y. Feggetter, RAMC @ wellcomelibrary.org

• Honouring Mr George Y Feggetter FRCS @ rsm-wallofhonour.com