Gerald Charles Slee was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Hereford and at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, gaining his MB ChB in 1947. Prior to being appointed as a consultant, he was a registrar in the accident service at the Radcliff Infirmary, Oxford, and then a senior registrar at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital, also in Edinburgh. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and a member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He gained his FRCS in 1953. He was married to Helen. Gerald Charles Slee died on 22 July 2012, aged 87.