One of the four who continued to practice in Britain between the world wars after training at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup with Harold Gillies.
He took a special interest in repairing cleft lips and palate[2][full citation needed] and was appointed in 1944 as Nuffield Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Oxford.
He served in the Second World War as a consulting plastic surgeon and worked at Roehampton which developed into Stoke Mandeville Hospital .
His intended to join Dr Bateman of Blackburn in general practice, but when the First World War intervened he was enlisted in the R.A.M.C.
His was advised he might gain an appointment with Major Harold Gillies in a new hospital unit where a new of specialty, "Plastic Surgery."
Hugh qualified in medicine at St Thomas's Hospital but died during service with the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force.