Raymond Carter Hodge was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Wales. He studied medicine in Bristol, where he gained his MRCS LRCP and MB ChB in 1960. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior house officer in plastic surgery and neurosurgery at Frenchay

William Edward Granville Griffiths was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 13 September 1938 in Neath, Glamorgan, the son of Melvin Griffiths, an engineer, and Sarah Vivienne Griffiths née Hughes. He was educated at Coedffranc Junior School, Skewen, and Neath Grammar Schoo

Anthony John Hall, otherwise known to his friends and colleagues as ‘Tony’, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in Kingston upon Hull to Percy Edwin John Hall and Mabel Hall née Webster. The family moved to Harrogate when Tony was still q

John Phillips Matthews was born on 28 July 1936. After qualifying he was a surgical registrar at the Singleton Hospital in Swansea before becoming a senior lecturer in the department of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff. He passed the fellowship of th