Harold John Kevin Vieyra was born in Madras, India on 4 May 1929. He was educated privately before attending Montford Boys' European High School, Yercaud, where he became the junior athletics champion. His premedical studies were at Madras Christian College and he then qualified from Madras Medical

David Haw was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in York who had very broad interests, but enjoyed paediatrics as a subspecialty. He had an abiding interest in clinical anatomy, and in retirement taught anatomy to medical students for 11 years. He was born on 17 September 1926 at Batticaloa, Ceylon,

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

Stuart Cameron was born on 6 December 1926, in Wellington, New Zealand. His early education was in Wellington and later at the Hutt Valley High School there. He studied medicine at Otago Medical School and graduated in 1951. After house surgeon years in Wellington and Palmerston North he joined the

Reginald Kitchin was a well-liked and industrious orthopaedic surgeon who worked in Canberra, Australia. He was a pioneer in the area, as he was only the second specialist orthopaedic surgeon to practise there from 1963: the first was Dick Vance. As the population grew, they were joined by Keith McG

John Bentham Morris was born in 1932, the son of a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, and was educated at King's College, Auckland, and then proceeded to the University of Otago where he graduated in medicine in 1956. After holding junior appointments in New Zealand he came to England and obtained t

Graeme Ballantyne Smaill was born in Gisbome, New Zealand, in 1928 and was educated at Gisbome High School and Otago University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1954. In his student days he was keen on surf lifesaving and on tennis. After graduation he spent three years at Wellington Hospital as house

Patrick James Chesterman was born in Hillingdon on 15 June 1928, the son of G.H. Chesterman, and after early education at Gunnersbury Roman Catholic School entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1944 at the unusually early age of sixteen. During his student days he captained the medical school

David Millward Davies was born in Gwaelod-y-Garth and educated at Pontypridd Grammar School before entering the Welsh National School of Medicine where he graduated BSc in 1941 and MB, ChB in 1944. His first appointment was at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, under the wartime Emergency Medical Service.

Anthony Charles William Mosbergen da Roza was an orthopaedic surgeon based in Hong Kong. He was born on 10 August 1932 in Hong Kong, where his father, Carlos Francisco da Roza, was a GP. His mother was Esther Mary née Mosbergen. He was educated at Mary Knoll School and Wah Yan College, and went on t

Bernard Broadhurst studied medicine at Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1952. After junior posts he specialised in orthopaedics and was a registrar at Colchester, St Thomas's and the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the

Leo Lenaghan, the son of a farmer, was born in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, on 4 November 1930. He attended a primary school at Tourello, where the family had continuously farmed property since settling there in the early 1850's, and then St Patrick's College, Ballarat. He entered Melbourne Univer