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Photograph of Roy Frew Young.
Roy Frew Young graduated in arts and medicine from Cambridge University. He worked alongside Sir George Beatson at the Glasgow Western Infirmary and JB Mackenzie Anderson at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 1909 he became part of the Junior Surgical staff at the Glasgow Western Infirmary.
He served in France with the RAMC during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross. After the War he became Assistant Surgeon to the Glasgow Western Infirmary. He also worked as Surgeon to the Royal Alexandra Infirmary and in 1924 he was made Visiting Surgeon to the Glasgow Western Infirmary.
Young was president of the College from 1940 to 1942.
