Ken Oyston was an orthopaedic surgeon in the Royal Air Force and at Halifax Royal Infirmary. He was born on 13 January 1925 on Tyneside. His father, Harry Oyston, studied mathematics at Durham University and served briefly in the First World War as a second lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers

Gordon Hadfield was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey. He was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 31 August 1924, the youngest of three brothers. Both his parents, James Arthur Hadfield and Grace Sherwood Hadfield née Calver, were consultant psychiatri

Robert Hubert Bonfield Mills was born at Merthyr Tydfil and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, graduating MB BCh in 1946. After national service in the Royal Navy he entered general practice in Merthyr Tydfil. Having obtained his Fellowship in 1953, he left ge

Howard Toyne was a pioneer of sports medicine in Australia. He was born in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia on 10 November 1920, the son of Albert Toyne, a meat inspector, and Marion Crozet Toyne née Marsh, a housewife and the daughter of a station master. He attended the University High School in Mel