John Myers was a consultant surgeon in the accident and emergency department at Newham General Hospital in the East End of London. He qualified from St Mary's in 1968, where he did junior posts before passing the FRCS. He went on to be a casualty officer at St Thomas's Hospital, London, then a regis

Ranjit Basu was born on 15 August 1926 and studied for his MB BS at Grant Medical College in Bombay. He became a Fellow of the College in 1957 and came to England to live in Liverpool. He became surgical registrar at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and then senior registrar at the Liverpool Thoraci

Kareti Venkata Krishna Reddy was born on 21 October 1929 at Gadur, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India, the third son of Kareti Ranga Reddy and his wife Kareti Seshamma. His early education was at the High School in Gudur before being admitted to Madras Medical College. He qualified in 1953 and

Matthew Choyce, the son of David Choyce (q.v. above) and Diana Graham, was born on 28 June 1963. He read medicine at Oxford and then did junior jobs at the United Hospitals in Bath and the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He specialised in accident and emergency medicine, becoming first registrar at the

John Hindle trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and after junior posts specialised in accident and emergency surgery. He was a registrar to Tilbury and Riverside Hospital and Accident Officer at the Middlesex Hospital before being appointed consultant in charge of the emergency department at Luton

Joe Jaya-Ratnam was born in Ceylon on 17 December 1936. He trained in Colombo, where he practised for 15 years before going to England to train in surgery. He specialised in accident and emergency medicine, was a registrar in Lincoln and Leicester, and a senior registrar in Middlesborough, before be

Geoffrey William Hinchley (Geoff) was an accident and emergency surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, London. Born in Barrow in Furness on 4 December 1959, he was the second of four children. At Barrow Boys Grammar School he excelled both in class and on the athletics field. He studied medicine a

Nicholas Warren studied medicine at London University and the London Hospital, qualifying MB, BS in 1976. He did house jobs in accident and emergency medicine at the London and for the North West Thames Regional Health Authority. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1983 and became an accident

Reg Jones, 'Jones the Bones' to his friends and colleagues, was a consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon in the south east Kent, Canterbury and Thanet area. He was born in Southport on 5 October 1939, the son of Eric Lloyd, a transport manager, and Royal Audrey Joan Lloyd née Johnstone-Brown, a

Albert Patrick ('Paddy') Dignan was a former director of Army surgery. He was a remarkable character who was born into a modest family in Dublin. His father, Joseph, a tailor, was able to get all five of his sons through medical school. (Whether an ability to stitch can be inherited remains open to

Major General Norman Rogers was the director of Army surgery, and during his career encouraged the training of Army surgeons and the study of military wounding at the research establishment at Porton Down. He was born on 14 October 1916 in Long Acre, central London, the only child of Charles William

Thomas Lowden was a casualty surgeon in Sunderland. He was born in Leeds on 25 March 1910, where his father, Harold Lowden, was an engineer and his mother, Ethel Annie Lamb, a schoolteacher. From Leeds Grammar School he won a Holroyd scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, and went back to Leeds for h