Old Photograph Roods Street Kirriemuir Scotland

Old photograph of shops and people on Roods Street in Kirriemuir, Scotland. Sir David Percival Dalbreck Wilkie was born on 5 November 1882 in Kirriemuir. He was the second son of David Wilkie, a wealthy jute manufacturer and his wife Margaret Lawson Mill. He attended Edinburgh Academy from 1896 to 1899 and then studied Medicine at Edinburgh University graduating in 1908. Wilkie was initially employed from 1910 as a surgeon at Leith Hospital, in the harbour area of Edinburgh, and in 1912 moved to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, as House Surgeon. On 26 April 1913, he was commissioned as a surgeon in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. During the First World War, he served on the hospital ship St Margaret of Scotland, first in the Mediterranean and then in Salonika. He had been promoted to surgeon lieutenant commander by the end of the war. Following the war, in 1924 he was appointed Professor of Systematic Surgery at Edinburgh University. In 1925, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: his proposers were James Lorrain Smith, Arthur Robertson Cushny, George Barger, and David Murray Lyon. In the 1936 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor and therefore granted the title sir. In 1936, he served as President to the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He died whilst on a trip to London on 28 August 1938, aged only 55.



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