James Bothwell Pyper was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Northern Ireland. He qualified in Belfast in 1946 and gained his FRCS in 1951. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter and a senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery f

John Allen Mantle studied medicine at Birmingham and became senior registrar to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He was also registrar to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital. Eventually he moved to Cornwall and became consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Cornwall Hospital G

William Grant Doig was an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was born on 30 October 1922, the son of Keith McKeddie Doig, an Australian rules footballer and general practitioner from Colac, Victoria, who had served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in France during the Firs

Michael Alms was an orthopaedic surgeon in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born Tadashi Kubo in Kyoto, Japan on 29 January 1922. His mother, Naka Kubo (‘Kimi’), was from a samurai family; his father, George Frederick Hill Alms, was a member of the Royal Engineers who went on to become a brig

Robert Alexander Bremner was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at York County Hospital and then York City General Hospital. He was born in Alloa, Scotland, the son of two schoolteachers. He attended Alloa Academy and then the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified in medicine in 1947.

Eric Hugo Strach was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon on Merseyside. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, into a Jewish family. His father, Cornelius Strach, was a businessman; his mother was Helene Strach née Bachrich. He studied medicine at Prague University and graduated in 1938. After qualify

Bob Owen was a professor of orthopaedic surgery at Liverpool University and a consultant at the Royal Liverpool Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. He was born in Chwilog on the Lleyn peninsula, north Wales, the son of Griffith Owen, a farmer and butcher, and Laura Mary O

Robin Denham was an orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 18 April 1922, and studied medicine at St Thomas’s medical school in London, qualifying in 1945. He was a senior registrar at Rowley Bristow Hospital in Pyrford and at St Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey. He was subsequently appointed t

Anthony Hugh Cyril Ratliff (known as 'Tony' or 'Ratty') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in London on 18 August 1921, the first child of Sidney Ratliff, a leather manufacturer, and Mary Ratliff née Plaskett. He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar Schoo

Alfred Beck was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Cardiff. He was born in Uhersky Brod, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), on 28 January 1912. His father, Ignaz, was a wholesale merchant and councillor, from a prominent family in the Jewish community which included rabbis and business

John Gwyn Howell (Toby) James was born in Pontypridd on 5 May 1919 to Thomas Edwin James, a bank manager, and his wife Margaret, née Williams, a farmer's daughter. After early education in South Wales he studied medicine in Cardiff, and graduated MRCS, LRCP at the Welsh National School of Medicine i

Donald Macrae was born on 8 February 1916 and educated at Oundle School. After medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital he graduated in 1938 and served as house surgeon to Professor Paterson Ross. He then joined the staff of the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton, as a resident medical officer.