Philip Shemilt was a highly respected consultant surgeon at Salisbury General Hospital. Over a long career as a general surgeon, which included service during the Second World War and a period spent working in post-colonial Zimbabwe, he carried out 32,000 operations. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent, S

John Philip Bentley was a consultant general surgeon at the Connaught, Harrow and Wanstead hospitals. He was born on 5 January 1916 in Bexleyheath, Kent, the son of Roland Cunard Bentley, a chartered secretary, and Margaret Bentley née Budd, the daughter of a medical practitioner. John was the third