Surgeon captain Bruce Jones RN was born on 26 June 1919 at Ringwood, Hants, the first son of Ernest Victor Jones, a dental surgeon, and Gladys Maud Jones née Sloper. He was educated at Great Ballard School near Hilton, Hants. He then moved on the Sherborne School. Initially, he started dental traini

Cicely Pepler studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and qualified MB, BS in 1944. She was Nuffield Scholar in orthopaedic surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Other posts she held were as assistant lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; research fel

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

Born in Birkenhead on Christmas Day 1922, Laurence Godfrey trained at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1944. After the war he trained in orthopaedics at the Norfolk and Norwich and Addenbrooke's Hospitals before being appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville. There he became a kee

Reginald Merryweather trained at Guy's Hospital and after junior jobs joined the RAMC. After the war he specialised in orthopaedics, becoming senior registrar at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Gloucester. His interests includ

Richard Harrison was a consultant orthopaedic and accident and emergency surgeon in south west Cumbria. He was born on 8 July 1922 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS in 1944. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Cancer Hospital, a senior registr

Bernard Cashman was born on 10 June 1920 in Hammersmith, London. He was the son of Joseph, a master tailor, and his wife, Lena, née Whipp, a tailor and dressmaker. He entered the medical school at University College Hospital, London. He was sufficiently advanced in his medical studies to be exempted