Alan Green was a consultant surgeon and urologist at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and a former president of the Travelling Surgical Society. He was born on 2 July 1927 in Leicester into a non-medical family. His father, Norman George Edwin Green, was a clerk for the Inland Revenue and his mother, Li

Louis René De Jode was born on 29 November 1926 in East Ham, London. He was the son of Louis Guillaume De Jode and Germaine, née Tavernier, who left Belgium during the first world war. His father set up practice in the East End, where he became a much loved and respected family doctor. Louis always