Little can be discovered about Allan Richmond Cockerell. He qualified MB ChB New Zealand in 1945; coming to Britain he gained his FRCS in 1950. Returning to New Zealand he obtained the Fellowship of the Australian College in 1961. Specialising in orthopaedics, he practised in Wanganui and in Tango.

William Arthur Elliston (Bill) was born in Ipswich on 4 October 1904. His father, William Rowley Elliston OBE, was a barrister who became Recorder of Great Yarmouth and Mayor of Ipswich and his mother was Ethel Mary, nee Walton. Many of his family had been associated with the medical profession and

Lucas's working life was spent in orthopaedics, first as orthopaedic surgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and as first assistant in the orthopaedic department of Liverpool Royal Infirmary and later as orthopaedic surgeon to Bristol Royal Infirmary, to the Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, to Tetbury H

Alan Graham Apley was born in London on 10 November 1914, the youngest son of a Jewish immigrant tailor from Poland, Samuel Apley. His mother was Mary Hilda, nee Tandos. He attended St Ethelburga's school where he came top of all London in the eleven-plus equivalent of the day. He subsequently atten

James Armstrong came from a staunchly medical Belfast family but spent very little of his life in his native province. His father John was a surgeon and sometime Member of Council of the RCS Ireland; his mother Maria, née Rowan, was a doctor, as were three of his brothers and his sister. James wa

'Mannie' Lunz was born in Benoni on 4 May 1924. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, qualifying in 1946. After junior posts at Johannesburg General Hospital he went to England to study orthopaedics under Professor Brian Mc

Heber Langston was born in Croydon, Surrey, on 1 July 1907, the eldest son of Earle Legh Langston, a Clerk in Holy Orders, and Alice, née Carr. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1931 with distinction in surgery. After junior appoin

David John Fuller, the only son of Wilfred Evelyn Fuller, a civil servant, and of Joan Anne (née Lovering), was born on 23 September 1939 at Fowey, Cornwall. He was educated at Welwyn Garden City Grammar School and London University before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. After qualif

Mark Dunkerton was born in Rinteln, West Germany, on 3 March 1954. He was the son of George Henry Hedley Dunkerton, a general practitioner, and his wife Winifred Mary, née Cattell, who was a vicar's daughter. He attended Tormore Preparatory School in Upper Deal, Kent, and then Cheltenham College. Af

Aravind Keshav Talwalkar passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1936 and became a Fellow of the College the following year. He returned to India and practised at the Fracture and Orthopaedic Hospital, Bombay. He died on 23 March 1985 survived by his son, Dr C A Talwalkar.

Robert Henderson was born in Lucknow on 23 December 1916, the son of Selby Herriot Henderson IMS and Ruby, née Wells, whose father was a survivor of the siege of the Residency in Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital and did junior posts at the Birmingham Acci

Adrian Henry was born in Dublin on 22 June 1930, the son of Robert Francis Jack Henry, Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and his wife Stella Christine, née Ross. Adrian spent a year at the Dublin College of Art before studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. His s