After qualifying MB BS from London University in 1946 Eric Martin Kupfer worked as a house surgeon at Ashford County Hospital and Westminster Hospital. He then became registrar in the fractures and orthopaedics department of the East Suffolk and Ipswich Hospital. Finally he was consultant in orthopa

Peter Corfield was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, on 17 June 1922. Both parents were consultant analytical chemists, his father, Charles Edwin, being the editor of Martindale and the British Pharmacopoeia. He also lectured and examined at the University of London, as did his wife Ella, née Caird.

John Hankinson, known as ‘Hank’, was a consultant neurosurgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, and professor of neurosurgery at the University of Newcastle. He was born in Ramsbottom, Lancashire, on 10 March 1919, the son of Daniel Hankinson, a company director, and Anne née Ka