Frank Schiess was an orthopaedic surgeon in Macclesfield. He was born in Singapore on 24 July 1940. His parents were Swiss: his father, Edward, was a businessman, his mother was Elsa (née Pfister). The family escaped to Perth, Western Australia, just before the arrival of the Japanese. After the war

David John Fuller, the only son of Wilfred Evelyn Fuller, a civil servant, and of Joan Anne (née Lovering), was born on 23 September 1939 at Fowey, Cornwall. He was educated at Welwyn Garden City Grammar School and London University before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. After qualif