Douglas Harold Barnbrook, known as 'Barney', was a consultant general surgeon and professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1946. He passed his FRCS in 1951 and in the same year emigrated to H

Royston ‘Roy’ Reed-Davis was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Chedoke and Hamilton Civic hospitals, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was born in London on 8 October 1921. His birth was registered in Hackney and his mother’s maiden name was Reed. In 1939 he was living in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, a