He was the personal physician to Field Marshal Montgomery, during the World War II in North west Europe from 1944 to 1945.
He was born on 14 July 1915 the son of Margaret Thorburn (née Brockie) and Robert Marshall Hunter.
In the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and was later appointed as personal physician to Field Marshal Montgomery.
[3] Following the revelations in 1962 of the thalidomide disaster of the three previous years Hunter was appointed to the Committee on the Safety of Drugs and was Chairman of the Clinical Trials Sub-Committee.
His proposers were Anthony Elliot Ritchie, George Howard Bell, Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick and James Macdonald.