Christopher Michael Squire trained at St Mary's Hospital Medical School and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1937. He became a Fellow of the College in 1947. During the second world war he served with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as an orthopaedic specialist with the rank of Squadron-Leader. After early appointments at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry and at the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford he became surgeon to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Finally he became consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Reading Group of Hospitals. He contributed a paper entitled *Carpal mechanics and trauma* to the *Journal of bone and joint surgery* in 1958. He was listed as 'deceased' by the General Medical Council in 1989.