Alastair Fraser Mcinnes was born in Edinburgh 2nd of  April 1912 to James and Jemima  Mcinnes. After school and sports he studied medicine at the School of Medicine, Edinburgh.where He met and   married a medical student Robina C Ross. After  graduating  in 1942 , he did some work in the Royal infirmary before joining the Royal Navy . He was a Senior Medical officer and served until  he was released from services in 1946 . He then went to the Merchant Navy on the whaling ships    Traveling to places like  South Georgia. On one of his travels he Celebrated crossing the equator. The navy  like to do this in style He returned to Edinburgh in 1952 and set up his own General Practice .His morning surgery  was run in the Mcinnes House  in Liberton , Edinburgh, which soon grew in to a large practice. His afternoon surgery was run from a room in a house in Morden, Edinburgh. My granfather treated many Edinburgh residents including bringing some of them in to the world. 
  He also  gave lectures for st Andrews Ambulance Association.