John Brian Walker

John Brian Walker (1924 – 15 October 2014) was a British general practitioner with a prior career in eye surgery.

After studying at New College, Oxford and while studying medicine at The London Hospital in 1945, he was one of the London medical students who were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation by British troops, to assist in the feeding of the severely malnourished and dying inmates, under the supervision of nutritionist Arnold Peter Meiklejohn.

After studying at New College, Oxford and while studying medicine at The London Hospital in 1945,[1] he was one of the London medical students who were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation by British troops, to assist in the feeding of the severely malnourished and dying inmates, under the supervision of nutritionist Arnold Peter Meiklejohn.

[2][3] After gaining his medical degree, he was drafted into the army and sent to east Africa, where he became an eye surgeon and married Mary, a Royal London Hospital nurse.

Following the demobilisation of the British Armed Forces after the Second World War, he returned to London with Mary and ran his father's general practice.