OBITUARIES John Booth Henry Ernest Gray John Booth qualified from the Turner Henry Ernest Gray died on 7 February Dental School in 1956. After National 2002 at the age of 93. He was born in Glas- Service he studied endodontics at Ann gow on 16 July 1908, the son of a foreman Arbor Michigan and then completed his pattern maker in a shipyard. Despite the DDS at Toronto. physical disability of severe congenital He returned to England and practiced deformity of both feet, he was an able in the well-known Oxford practice with and successful student. From 1928, he Peter Ellis, and taught part time at UCH studied dentistry at the University of Dental School. In 1975 he moved to Glasgow, winning a string of medals and Australia to practice endodontics with Dr Geoff Heathersey, who prizes along the way including the Glas- popularised endodontic medication with calcium hydroxide. John gow Dental Hospital Board of Governors' Medal for the Best Stu- was a very successful dentist who lived life to the full. He was a dent on the course. He qualified LDS RFPS in 1933 then spending a charming and very talented hard working man. His great passion year in private practice and a year as a house surgeon at Glasgow was sport, and he was a low handicap golfer all his life. Dental Hospital. In 1935, he embarked on a career as a school den- As a young dentist he won his Derbyshire county gold champi- tal officer, moving to Leeds where he remained until 1947 when he onship, and after retirement he played for the Australian Senior moved to Derby and the school dental service for Derbyshire. In golf team. He actually played 400 courses around the world. 1939, he married Evelyn Grant, a school nurse. A kind and friendly He also played hockey and squash to a very high level. He won Scotsman, I knew him as an enthusiastic member of the East Mid- the Hong Kong squash championship during his time there doing lands Branch with an encyclopaedic memory on all subjects dental National Service. He was a devoted family man with three sons. who could still accurately quote the price of a gallon of petrol as After retirement he spent a lot of time in voluntary dental work. He far back as 1937! He still both drove and serviced his own car until was a regent for the Academy of Dentistry International Asia his eighties. Pacific region promoting dental care in the developing countries. His wife Evelyn survives him, together with his daughter Jean, He died from a lymphoma in Adelaide on February 19th aged 68. his son-in-law and two grandsons. P. E. D. V. H.

Kenneth Edmund Clokey Ulster born Normandy veteran and one of the senior practicing dental surgeons He always prided himself on the quality in England, Kenneth Clokey died aged 81. In spite of debilitating illness follow- of his work. ing war service he went on to become one of the oldest practicing dental sur- quickly repatriated to England where on recommencing his med- geons in England, retiring shortly before ical studies he was taken ill again after losing a kidney and part of his 79th birthday. his larynx and was, at one point, given only weeks to live. He Kenneth Edmund Clokey was born in recovered largely thanks to some intensive nursing at the military Belfast on 17 April 1920, the only child hospital in Roehampton where he was to meet his future wife of Major E. H. Clokey and his wife Gertrude, less than twenty Brenda Buckton, whom he married in 1948. Six years later he months after the end of the First World War in which his father qualified from Guys Hospital as a dental surgeon and was admitted won the Military Cross at the Battle of the Somme. At the age of to the Royal College of Surgeons of England. five, Kenneth moved with his parents to Wimbledon and he was In 1953 Kenneth set up in general practice in , Sur- educated at Kings College, Wimbledon. In 1938, Kenneth was rey, and while building a large and loyal practice he served on accepted by Guys Hospital to start training for MRCS LRCP and many NHS and dental committees including the Secretary of LDS, and he also joined the Irish Rifles territorial army State’s Dental Advisory Committee and the LDC of which based at the Duke of York's Chelsea in the same year. he was vice chair in the early 1980's. He always prided himself on In September 1939, his medical studies came to an abrupt end the quality of his work. This was reflected when a recently emi- as he was sent to the officer training unit at Blenheim Barracks grated patient returned from South Africa twice a year to continue prior to being commissioned as a 2/LT in the Royal Ulster Rifles. with his treatment. In 1995 he was elected a fellow of the Royal After an initial posting in Ballymena and then in Angelsey, in Society of Medicine. Clokey was a founder member of the Croydon 1942 he was promoted to captain and appointed as intelligence South Rotary Club, which was set up in 1968. He served as presi- officer to 29th Armoured Brigade of 11 Armoured Division in dent from 1972-73 and remained an active member until very preparation for the Normandy landings. On June 11 1944, Clokey recently. A keen and talented painter, Kenneth had a number of his landed with advance units of 29 Armoured Brigade on Juno Beach works exhibited, although they were more usually to be found near Beny sur Mer, and later became engaged in heavy fighting adorning the walls of his surgery or waiting room. Following during the breakout and capture of Antwerp. enforced retirement due to major heart surgery in 1998, the year of Kenneth was to lose many of his closest friends during these his golden wedding, Kenneth spent his last few years organising, battles and always counted himself as lucky rather than brave to as secretary, 150 volunteer stewards at the Halls in Croy- have survived. In April 1945, his unit liberated Begen-Belsen and don, a role which he continued to fulfil until three weeks before his the horror of that camp was something to which he seldom death. His wife Brenda survives him with their son John born in referred but about which much is now known. When the war 1960. ended they had reached Schleswig on the Baltic coast. He was B. C

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