The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 269 No 7229 p893
21/28 December 2002

TRIBUTES

Reece On 3 November, Phillip Neil Reece, MRPharmS, of 118 Shefford Road, Meppershall, Shefford, Bedfordshire SG17 5LL. Dr Reece registered in 1974.

Tribute

Murray In a tribute to the late James Murray (PJ, 23 November, p762), VICTOR HAMMOND writes:

Jim Murray enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in January 1941. Early in his wartime service he was posted from the depot in Leeds to 3 Company RAMC, which provided medical trooping parties for troopships. His first ship was HMT Andes. During his war service he encountered a number of pharmacy colleagues, including his friend Allan Woodhead, who had been his senior apprentice when he had managed a branch of Taylor's Chemists Ltd in Burley Hill, Leeds. Allan had enlisted in 1942, after qualifying as a pharmacist, and had engineered himself a posting to the trooping pool.

I remain grateful to Jim for supplying details of the 15 ships in which he sailed and also another 51 with which he, Allan and other colleagues were acquainted in the war.

The last message I received from Jim was a telephone call just over a year ago. I realised he was failing in health and that it was not likely that I would have my annual written news from him and his wife Betty. The world today would be a better place with more like them.

Jim's youngest son, Michael, is a pharmacist who works for the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.