Robin Charles Winfield Williams was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born on 15 December 1929, the son of F Winfield Williams and Marion Jean Williams. He gained his FRCS in 1960 and was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He wa

Hugh Barry was a senior orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was born in Orange in 1912 and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, won a blue at rugby, and was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for New South Wales, which took him

A stroke ended Brian Cornish's long life of service and achievement on Friday 28 July 2017. He died peacefully aged 92, surrounded by his 4 children and their spouses. Betty, his wife of fifty-nine years, preceded him in 2009. His end came at Royal Adelaide Hospital where he started work as a junior

Dr John Roarty is regarded as one of the pre-eminent orthopaedic surgeons, and a pioneer of hip replacement surgery, in Australia. He devoted his life to his profession, and with a gentle tenacity, in his characteristically unassuming way, rose to the top of his field. Born on April 18, 1924, to

Jim Ellis was an orthopaedic surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Rylstone, New South Wales, in 1922, the second of five children of Ashley Ellis and his wife, Flora Ellis née Morrison. Ashley worked in many jobs, then became a stock inspector. Flora had been a teacher and, after Ashley reti

Few if any have had as great an impact on Australian orthopaedic surgery as had Tom Taylor. 'TKFT' was born in Sydney in 1932, the son of Dr Charles and Mrs Dot Taylor of Bondi. In 1941, when invasion by the Japanese appeared possible, Tom's education (on a scholarship at Sydney Grammar School) was

Henry Vernon Crock (known as Harry) was a pioneering Australian spinal surgeon. He was born in Perth, Western Australia on 14 September 1929, the son of Vernon Crock and Annie Crock née Doyle. He studied medicine at the University of Melbourne with his identical twin brother Gerard William Crock, wh

Ronald Lawrie Huckstep was the inaugural professor of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and before that at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He was born in Chefoo, China, on 22 July 1926. His father, Herbert George Huckstep, was appointed dir

Ian Harris was surgeon to the government of Brunei. He was born in Adelaide in 1920. His father had emigrated from Scotland, and Ian himself felt profoundly Scottish. He interrupted his medical studies to join the Royal Navy during the second world war. In the North Sea and later in the Mediterranea

Son of a pastoralist, Donald Wallace Fleming ("Don" or sometimes "Walt" to his friends) was born in Carnarvon 2 January 1917. He attended the local primary School in Carnarvon then Guildford Grammar School in Perth, completing his schooling in 1934. In those days, to do medicine it was necessary