Teddy Sarkin's MD thesis was for work on the use of synthetic materials in finger injuries, and won him an Adams and Nuffield scholarship to continue these studies in the UK and USA, where he passed the FRCS of the Edinburgh and English colleges. He went on to be senior lecturer and director of the

Douglas (Dougal) Caird was born on 21 April 1921 in Dundee. He was educated at the University of St Andrew's. He served in the RAMC in Palestine and North Africa from 1947 to 1948 during National Service. He held training posts in Mansfield, Sheffield and Dundee and was appointed consultant orthopae

John McNeil Smith was born on 10 October 1927 in Jamaica in the West Indies to John Alexander Smith, a civil servant, and his wife Ida Maud, née Bayley. He was educated at Wolmers Boys' School from which he obtained a scholarship to the University of Sheffield and read medicine. He qualified MB, BS

Collins Louis Greaves, the son of Ernest Collins Greaves and Sophia Constance (née Currell), was born at Lota, Queensland, on 20 July, 1922. After education at Brisbane Grammar School he worked for a short while in a hospital laboratory which fired his interest in medicine. After one year at the Uni

William Winslow Woodward was born in Emmaville, New South Wales, on 14 October 1920, the son of Edward Albert Woodward, a general practitioner. His father was an outstanding classical scholar who wrote poems in Latin and conversed in that language at regular meetings with fellow enthusiasts. After e

Jack Stevens was born in Ingleton in Yorkshire and was proud of his West Riding roots. He won a scholarship from his school to Christ College, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself in the rowing club, as well as academically. He graduated MA, MB ChB in 1949, and spent two years as a National Ser