Mohamed Aly Mohamed Arafa was a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. His sub-specialty was hand surgery. He was born on 9 May 1950 and gained his MB BCh from Cairo University in 1973 and his FRCS in 1978. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a regi

William Waugh was Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery at Nottingham University Medical School. He was born on 17 February 1922 in Dover, where his father, also William, was a general practitioner. He was educated at Eastbourne College and Pembroke College, Cambridge, going on to win an ent

Brigadier Graham Stock was an adviser in orthopaedic surgery to the director general of Army Medical Services and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich. He was born on 21 February 1937 in Chesterfield, the son of Charles Edward Stock, a foreman at Cheste

Basil John Steele Grogono was a professor of surgery at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born in Risbridge, Suffolk on 9 December 1922, the son of Jonathan Grogono, medical officer of Epsom College, and Sissy Grogono née Steele. He had an identical twin brother, Geoffrey Ru

George Attara was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor, Wales. He was born in Cairo, Egypt on 29 December 1945 to an Egyptian father, Antoine Karim Attara, a merchant, and a Greek mother, Anastasia Attara née Mazarakis. This background gave him a deep appreciation of differ

Bernard Cashman was born on 10 June 1920 in Hammersmith, London. He was the son of Joseph, a master tailor, and his wife, Lena, née Whipp, a tailor and dressmaker. He entered the medical school at University College Hospital, London. He was sufficiently advanced in his medical studies to be exempted

'Mac' Crooks was born on 21 January 1909, the son of David Mackenzie Crooks. He was educated at Epworth College and studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he qualified in 1931. He held junior posts at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and at the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. He

John Noel Nish was born in Benalla, Victoria, Australia, in 1913, the son of a general practitioner and the grandson of the Reverend Dr Nish who left Scotland to preach to the goldminers in Bendigo. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School before entering Trinity College, Melbourne, for medical stu

Kenneth Stanley Wise was a consultant in orthopaedic surgery at Amersham and Wycombe hospitals.

John Taylor ‘Jack’ Coull was a major general in the Royal Army Medical Corps. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Nicholas Barton was a consultant orthopaedic and hand surgeon at Queen’s Medical Centre and Harlow Wood Hospital, Nottingham.

Robert Allen Fitzsimons was born on 16 March 1892 at Maugherow, County Sligo, Ireland, and educated there at Summerhill College. He entered the Customs and Excise branch of the Civil Service by competitive examination in 1911 and in 1912 was transferred from Ireland to the Custom House at Billingsga