John Wilks was a consultant general surgeon at Bolton. He was born in London on 18 October 1918, the son of Charles Edward and Sybil Wilks. He was educated at Newcastle Preparatory School and Tonbridge School, where he gained an entrance scholarship, the Judd leaving exhibition and the Kitchener sch

Derek Teasdale was a consultant general surgeon in Rochdale. He was born on 11 February 1919, the eldest son of John Hall Teasdale, a house governor of Royal Waterloo Hospital, and Mabel Hannah Teasdale née Coldicott, a piano teacher. He attended Colfes School in Eltham and studied medicine at King’