Born on 26 September 1879, the youngest (fifth) child and only son of James Bankart, FRCS (1862) of Southernhay, Exeter, and Gertrude Moss, his wife. Hew as educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1901. He took his cl

The elder son of C B Barnett of Southampton, he was born in 1893 and was educated at Birmingham University, whence he proceeded to the Middlesex and University College Hospitals. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment as a combatant at the beginning of the war of 1914, before he had qualified, but w

Ratan Cavashah Edibam was an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth, Western Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1963 and subsequently studied at Liverpool University. He was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He died in July 2012.

James Geddis ('Jim') Kernohan was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bournemouth. He studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying MB BCh BAO in 1972. He held junior posts in Belfast, including becoming pathology demonstrator at the Royal Victoria Hospital. From 1977 to 1978 he wor

Born at Ilminster, 6 August 1877, third son of Henry Batten, master tailor, and Ann Summers, his wife. He was educated at Ilminster Grammar School and Bristol University, and qualified as a pharmacist in 1894. While earning his living in this profession he attended St Mary's Hospital Medical School,

Born near Lyon in 1868, he had a brilliant school and university career there. He qualified in 1893 with a thesis on difficulties of bone-growth following experimental and clinical lesions of the conjugatory cartilages. Nové-Josserand intended to enter the factories of the Creusot engineering compan

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

Fred Binns was an orthopaedic surgeon in Hobart, Tasmania. He was born in Sydney, the son of William and Dorothy Binns. Initially the family was based in Grenfell, New South Wales, where Fred's father had a busy dental practice, but they moved back to Sydney when Fred was 10 years old. He attended S

Henry Poirier was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex. The original family name of Birnbaum, meaning 'pear tree', was changed to the French equivalent - Poirier - by his grandfather, who shortly afterwards emigrated to Chile with his English wife, whe

Born at Sydney, New South Wales, on 4 January 1887, second son of Charles Smith, banker, and his wife, *née* Single. He was educated at the Fort Street High School and Sydney University. During the first world war he served in the Australian Army Medical Corps, and was promoted to the rank of major.

Born on 3 November 1921 the son of A C McMillan of Huddersfield, he was educated at Leeds Medical School, qualifying in 1945. He served as demonstrator of pathology in the School and as house surgeon at the General Infirmary. Deciding to specialise in orthopaedics he took the Fellowship in 1952, was

Hugh Osborne Williams, the son of Dr William Neville Pennant Williams, a general practitioner, and of May Williams (née Ridgeway), was born at Connah's Quay on 3 February 1920. He was educated at Epworth School, in Rhyl, before entering the medical school of Liverpool University. In the attenuated w