Thomas Stoyle ('Tom') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester. He was born on 21 April 1926 in Glasgow. His father was a regular soldier; his mother was German and the family regularly visited Germany for holidays. He was educated a

Teja Mangat was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Dudley and Stourbridge Hospital and retired from clinical practice in 1995, after which he continued medico-legal work. Born on 7 May 1930 in Nairobi, Kenya, he was the fifth son of Waryam Singh Mangat, a pioneer who went to Kenya in 1908 and pract

Eric Cyril Lewis was born in Hull and educated at Beverley Grammar School. He studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital and graduated in 1953. Surgical appointments followed at Plymouth and Wolverhampton and medical service with the armed forces in Kenya. He returned to his old teaching hospital as

Donald Cecil Gardner was an orthopaedic surgeon with the Tunbridge Wells District Hospital Group. He studied at London University and King’s College Hospital passing his MB BS in 1953. After house jobs at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and at King’s, he passed the fellowship in

John Malcolm Seaforth Hague was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1953. He was a registrar in general surgery at Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital before specialising in orthopaedic

Ernest Briant studied medicine at the Westminster Hospital where he was house surgeon on the irradiation unit and senior casualty officer. He joined the RAMC and became consultant surgeon in orthopaedics with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He died on 30 April 2002.