To provide medical, surgical and educational services by volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the primary objective of restoring eyesight to disadvantaged blind individuals worldwide.

In his early career he had been a volunteer surgeon in Romania and Serbia, and decorated for his work.

He remained at Lexington as a volunteer surgeon for about two weeks, then seems to have disappeared into the war.

During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), he participated as a volunteer surgeon.

A team of volunteer surgeons flew in by military glider and began operating in a tool room.

He served as a volunteer surgeon in the Union Army during the Civil War.

During the American Civil War, he served as a volunteer surgeon.

During the Civil War Dr. Hall had served as a volunteer surgeon in McClellan's Army.

To the Editor: Since 1968 I have traveled to Haiti many times as a volunteer surgeon.

Children from remote rural parts of Ethiopia are brought to The Cheshire 2 weeks before team of volunteer surgeons and anaesthetists arrives.