Philip Vlasto was an assistant orthopaedic surgeon to the West Dorset Health Authority. He was born on 25 November 1919, just after the end of the First World War, to Augustus Vlasto, a businessman, and his wife, Milly. Philip was educated at Lockers Park School and then Charterhouse, where his fasc

Christopher Cheyne was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield. He studied medicine at Liverpool, qualifying in 1957. He gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1966 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (ad eundem) in 1979.

James David Bromage was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria on 23 September 1949, the son of James Richard Vincent Arthur Bromage, a civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Frances Charlotte Bromage née Ke

Robin Sudlow was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Southend Hospital. He was born in Enfield, north London, on 25 January 1948 to Stanley Sudlow, a die caster, and Bessy Sudlow née Howard, who worked in the local pharmacy. His sister Roxanne, known as Roxy, was born four years later. He went to En