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Dr P F Rudd, who had been a general practitioner in Winslow, Buckinghamshire for almost 40 years, died on 29 July 1987 aged 67. He was a well-known character both in the town and wider afield. Indeed he regularly featured on the BBC's "Pick of the Week" where his prosaic writing and warm voice graced the nations radio at the time. Peter Frederick Rudd graduated in medicine in Birmingham in 1942 and almost immediately joined the Naval Volunteer Reserve as a surgeon lieutenant, having already gained much experience in emergency surgery during the air raids on Birmingham. He saw action in the North Sea on the notorious Russian convoys and in 1944 was in the headquarters frigate HMS Waveney anchored off the Normandy beachhead from D-Day- 1 to D+ 12. He was then transferred to a landing ship tank, which proved the most rewarding duty of his naval career. After the cargo of tanks, jeeps, and lorries had been discharged from these huge ships racks were swung out from the bulkheads of the vast lower tank deck to accommodate 300 stretchers, while two temporary operating theatres were erected at the after end. This meant that a man wounded in Normandy received resuscitation, dressing, and primary surgery while being transferred to England. In 1945 he was put in overall medical command of a flotila of 16 landing ship tanks sailing for the Far East. Dr Rudd entered into a year's introductory partnership in Winslow in 1946, acquiring the practice in 1947. He retired in 1985. His interests included sailing, music, and bird life. From 1967 to 1971 he broadcast regularly in Pause forThought and Ten to Eight (forerunners of the current Thought for the Day on Radio 4) in a team that included Bishop Montefiore, Cyril Fletcher, and Joyce Grenfell, and several of these broadcasts were subsequently published. It afforded him great and wondering satisfaction when one of his broadcasts evoked overwhelming listener response and was featured not only in Pick of theWeek but also Pick of the Year. He took a wide interest in the life of Winslow and was warden emeritus of the parish church after many years as warden. In 1943 he married Dr Margaret Coghill, who also retired in 1985, after 30 years' service in clinical assistantships in the Aylesbury Hospitals. She and their daughters, Susan and Sheila,and their grandchildren survive him.
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