Roger Stephen Davies was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Wigan. He was born on 4 February 1942 in north Wales, the eldest son of T Davies, a general practitioner. His early years were spent in Mold. He and his two brothers were left fatherless when his father died prematurely from heart disease.

Denys Wainwright was an orthopaedic surgeon in north Staffordshire. He was born on 5 August 1908 in St Helens, Lancashire, the son of Reginald Wainwright, an architect, and Marion Wainwright née Draper, a general practitioner. He was educated at Prescott Grammar School and then went to Liverpool Uni

Satish Chandra Bansal was an orthopaedic surgeon who worked in Kansas, USA. He gained his FRCS in 1971.

Kenneth Leslie George Mills, known as ‘Ken’, was an orthopaedic surgeon in Aberdeen. Born in Birmingham on 16 August 1929, his parents were Leslie Charles Mills, an insurance manager, and Grace Mills née Peel. He attended Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School in Sutton Coldfield and then Glasgow High School

Lance Karl Hyde Therkildsen was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in west Essex, based at Epping, Bishop’s Stortford and Harlow. He was born on 26 July 1937, the only son of Karl Therkildsen and Hilda Therkildsen née Hyde. He owed his name to a Danish grandfather, but never actually visited Denmark u

John Ireland was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at King George Hospital Ilford, Essex and at the nearby private hospital Holly House in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. He was born in Newquay, Cornwall on 14 July 1942. His father, Victor Edwin Ireland, known as ‘Mike’, was stationed as a Second World Wa

Raymond Nim-Wah Chan, known as Ray, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester and a surgeon at Leicester City Football Club, and one of the first Chinese orthopaedic surgeons to come to the UK. He was born on 28 July 1939 in Hong Kong, the son of Chan Ying Hung, a prominent lawyer, and Glady

Neil Watson was a hand surgeon in Oxford and Milton Keynes, and later a successful artist. He was born on 13 February 1944 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Neil's father, John Stuart Ferra Watson, and paternal grandfather were both Guy's-trained doctors. As his father served in the Royal Army M