Geoffrey Wetherell was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside. He was born on 6 June 1918, the son of Gertrude Blanche Wetherell née Hapgood and Alfred Wetherell. He studied medicine in Liverpool and, after qualifying in 1943, did his house jobs there. He carr

Kenneth Halstead Smith was a consultant surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital. He was born on 16 October 1918 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Samuel Driver Smith, a schoolmaster, and Amelia Smith née Halstead, the daughter of a cotton manufacturer. He was educated in elementary schools in B

Nicholas Talbot Hamilton was a consultant surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 7 February 1924, the son of Henry Talbot Hamilton, a general practitioner, and Elsie Maud Hamilton née Gibson, a nursing sister. He attended Melbourne Grammar School, where he

Thomas Hubert Morgan studied medicine at Cambridge and University College Hospital. He became first assistant to the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and senior orthopaedic registrar and Nuffield research fellow to the Wingfield-Morris Hospital, Oxford. He moved to Swindon and be

John Edward Blundell was born in London on 2 October 1920, where his parents, Ethel and Henry Blundell, were both teachers. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and served in the RAMC during the second world war working as a staff surgeon at the 48th British General Hospital in Graz, Austria.

Gerald ('Charlie') Westbury was professor of surgery and director of the Institute of Cancer Research at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was born in London on 29 July 1927, the elder son of Lew and Celia Westbury. His parents were of Eastern European Jewish origin and his father was a tailor. After a

Yahya Cohen was senior surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital and a former president of the Singapore Medical Council. Born in Singapore on 1 April 1920, he was the son of Menahem Cohen, a Yemeni merchant and Mozelle née Ezra who was from Iraq. The eldest of their three children, he was the only

Charles Marks was professor of surgery at Louisiana State University, New Orleans. He was born in Kremenchug, Ukraine, the son of Abe Marks, a businessman, and Sonia Marks née Beck, a housewife. He migrated to South Africa, where he matriculated from Wynberg Boys’ High School in Cape Town in Decembe

Dorothy Ridout was an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and later a general practitioner in Leeds. She was born in Southsea, Hampshire, the sixth of nine children of Charles Archibald Scott Ridout, a GP surgeon in Portsmouth, and Gladys Mary Ridout née Hooper. Medicine was in the family: Dorothy, with

Tony Malkin was born on 4 February 1916 in Cardiff. His father, Edwin Malkin, was a musician and organ-builder. His mother, Winifred Mary Lyddon, was the daughter of a Bristol stockbroker. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and King's College Medical School and Hospital. After juni

Donald James Tuffley was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. He was born in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the son of Henry Joseph Tuffley, a bank manager, and Winifred Tuffley née Cochrane. He was educated at Mackay High School and Toowoomba Grammar School. He then wo

Bernard Bloch, a Sydney-based surgeon, was a pioneer in the development of international standards for surgical implants. He was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on 7 November 1922, the son of Israel Bloch, a businessman, and Greta Grueschlovsky, who fled Lithuania to start a new life in the Oran