Memories of Dr Bruce Ogilvie by his daughter Belinda Grant

"He was one of six children. He read law at Oxford and was good at languages. Then he went off to the war and got his leg blown off in Africa. He was only in his 20s. He never talked about his wartime experiences but I know he was in hospital for a long time in France and I think that was what made him decide to become a doctor. It was just luck really that he managed to get a partnership at a practice up here. The surgery was in Wymering House near the Post Office and his partners were Dr Boreham and Dr Leedham-Green.

I think my father was a very good doctor. He was very sure about the things he valued - time, kindness and the small things that don't cost anything and mean so much. He had a wicked sense of humour but we used to get cross with him because he only ever took Friday afternoons off. The rest of the time he was always on call. Although the National Health was, by then, the norm, people still often wanted to have a private GP. When he was asked he always refused.

He drove an old Morris 1000 van with wooden bits and moss growing in the corners. It was always chaotically untidy inside. Of course you never dreamed of locking a car in thos days and naturally it would have all kinds of drugs in it. Life was very different!..."

From an interview in 'The Southwold Organ', May 2006