Born in Australia on 24 June 1900, he was educated at the University of Melbourne. He soon came to England and studied orthopaedics at Liverpool. He was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to the Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital in 1937. Ipswich was one of the first towns to be severely bombed in the Ger

Sir Rodney Sweetnam was undoubtedly the doyen of orthopaedic surgery of his generation. He had many talents. Foremost, he was a natural surgeon, gifted with great operative dexterity. He was also a pioneer in the research and management of bone tumours, and, thirdly, was an outstanding committee cha

Born at Ealing on 26 July 1854, the fourth and youngest son of William John Little, MD, FRCP, and Eliza, his wife, daughter of Thomas Roff Tamplin, of Lewes, Sussex. Dr Little (1810-1894) his father, early became interested in orthopaedics because he had a shortened tendo Achillis, which was divided

Born at Morrita, South Australia on 3 March 1895, the eldest son of Harry Pomroy of Wallaroo Mines, South Australia. He graduated in medicine from Adelaide University in 1918, and was immediately commissioned in the AAMC of the AIF, with which he served as a captain till 1919. He practised privately

John Gladstone Sweeney was born on 26 January 1928. His father James Sweeney was also a doctor who served with the AIF on the Western Front in the 1st World War. The family have fortunately maintained his copperplate hand written diaries of his war service and his interest in the nature and treat

Born on 15 August 1886 at Graaff Reinet in the Karoo, where he received his primary education and whence he came to Edinburgh, graduating in 1910. On his return to South Africa he became a general practitioner in Senekal, Orange Free State. In 1921 he came back to Britain and obtained his MD with

Born in Cracow, Poland on 16 April 1913 and educated at the Jewish High School there, he entered the medical school at Strasbourg in 1931 and qualified MD in 1938. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he joined the Polish forces in France and after the collapse in 1940 escaped to England, where he joined

Born in Bradford in 1877, the eldest son of David, medical officer to the Bradford Royal Infirmary, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1899. He went onto St Mary's Hospital as a u

Henry Denis Whitwell Powell 'Denis' was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in High Wycombe and Amersham. The middle child and only son of Henry and Margaret Powell, he was born on 23 April 1919 and brought up with his two sisters Celia and Rosalind at Monkton Combe near Bath, in a large house with sev

Petty was born on 27 May 1915 in Leeds, the son of a cabinet maker. He was educated at Leeds Modern School and the University of Leeds Medical School whence he graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1940, and passed his primary Fellowship while taking his finals at Leeds. After qualification h

Brian Roper was born in Sheffield on New Year's Day, 1933. His father, Arnold, was a railway executive, and his mother, Nora Tuxford, was the daughter of a master cutler. He was educated at Chesterfield School and Queen's College, Oxford (where he won the Legge Prize) and on to University College Ho

Wiles was born on 17 August 1899 the only son, with two sisters, of Thomas Wiles, chairman of Joseph Wiles and Son Ltd, corn-merchants of Mark Lane in the City of London. Thomas Wiles was a successful business-man and an active Liberal politician. He became Chairman of the London Corn Exchange, the