William Ernest Waterfall was a surgeon in Ontario, Canada. He was born in Manchester in 1943. His mother’s maiden name was Taylor. He qualified MRCS LRCP in 1969 and gained his FRCS in 1974. He emigrated to Canada and at the time of his death lived in Dundas, Ontario. He was married to Janet and

Nicholas Coe was associate director of surgical education at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts and a professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was born in Surrey on 8 May 1946, the son of Stuart Coe and Joan Coe née Whittley. He attended school in Abingdon and

Chris Good was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Newham General, Queen Mary's and Blackheath hospitals in London. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1946. His father was clerk of works for South Molton. When Chris was eight the family moved to Northern Rhodesia; his father became cler

Colin Teasdale was a consultant general surgeon at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. He was born in Leeds on 26 June 1945 to Alan Wainwright Teasdale and Eva Teasdale née Rowley He had an older sister, Jean, who trained as a dietitian, and a younger brother, Eric, became an occupational medicine consul