Epilogue

David Taylor returned to India a married man and joined the Indian Army Medical Service.  At that time he was one of very few eye specialists in the Indian army and travelled a great deal in his work.  Letters

During World War II he was sent out to a Military Hospital in Aden and later returned to India to be the Commanding Officer of a hospital at Cocanada (Kakinada today). 

In 1947 the British Officers in the Indian Army were sent home and he found a job in General Practice at the English market town of Wisbech, where the practice wanted a doctor with knowledge of eyes. 

Shortly afterwards the National Health Service was introduced to Britain and he was appointed to be the local Consultant Opthalmic Surgeon on the strength of his practical experience in India. 

He was the first eye surgeon that the Wisbech and Kings Lynn hospitals had had, and gained considerable local recognition for his cataract work and the number of local people whose sight he restored. He was way ahead of his time in the use of local anaesthetic for this operation. 

He worked out his career in this area and died aged 75 in the North Cambs Hospital at Wisbech in 1983. 

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Published in the year 2000 by his son, Robin Taylor.