Anthony Stuart Yarker Platten gained BCh in 1965 and MB Cambridge in 1966. He gained Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He was registrar at the accident unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. A member of the British Medical Association, he was orthopaedic registrar to the North East Metropolitan Regional Orthopaedic Centre, Notley Hospital, Braintree; orthopaedic house surgeon to Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. He was house surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. He died on 26 January 1973.