Cicely Pepler studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and qualified MB, BS in 1944. She was Nuffield Scholar in orthopaedic surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Other posts she held were as assistant lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; research fel

Born in Birkenhead on Christmas Day 1922, Laurence Godfrey trained at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1944. After the war he trained in orthopaedics at the Norfolk and Norwich and Addenbrooke's Hospitals before being appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Stoke Mandeville. There he became a kee

George Tupman received his medical education at Manchester, qualifying MB ChB in 1944. After serving with the RAMC in the second world war as lieutenant colonel and passing the Fellowship in 1952 he specialised in orthopaedics. After house posts and an appointment in the peripheral nerve injury unit

John Wanless Dickson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Ispwich and East Suffolk Hospital. Born on 31 July 1920, in Westgate-on-Sea, he was the fourth generation of his family to enter medicine. His great-grandfather was John Wanless MD of Dundee and Montreal. His father, Ivan Wanless, was

Henry Milsom was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 30 September 1919. His father, Edwin Henry Britton Milsom, was also a surgeon who had trained at Guy's. Mary Lavinia, née Nelson, his mother, was the daughter of Charles Moseley Nelson, a Church of England canon and the granddaughter of James Coates

Ibrahim El Moghraby was educated at Gordon's Memorial College in Khartoum and the Kitchener School of Medicine, where he graduated with distinction in 1935 after winning prizes in both medicine and surgery. He subsequently joined the Sudan medical service and after appointments at Khartoum Civil