Henry John Smith Waldeck was born at Oakengates, Shropshire, on 10 June 1927, the son of David Waldeck, an engineer, and his wife Annie Elizabeth, née Roberts. He was educated at Camphill Grammar School and King Edward VI High School, Birmingham, before entering the Birmingham Medical School. He qua

Ahmad Kazim was the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first surgeon and the founder and head of the department of orthopaedics at Dubai Hospital, UAE. From a family based in Dubai, he was born in Bombay, India on 15 October 1927, during the time of the British Raj. His father, Haji Abdulla, was a trader w