[2][3] Peter Essex-Lopresti trained at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1937.
He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving as surgical specialist in an airborne division during World War II.
He published a report on the injuries sustained during over 20,000 parachute jumps made by the Sixth British Airborne Division,[4] and followed this with a paper on the open wound in trauma.
[5] After the war he worked as a consultant surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, where he reorganized the postgraduate training program.
"[2][6] He died suddenly at home at the age of 35, leaving a wife and two children.