Samie Bashir Safar was a professor of surgery at the University of Baghdad. He was born in Mosul, Iraq, on 2 February 1943, the son of Bashir Safar, a pharmacist, and Sabria Safar née Al-Aswad. He studied medicine at Mosul Medical School, which at that time was part of Baghdad University, and qualif

Michael Chare was a consultant surgeon at Neath, Baglan, Morriston and Singleton hospitals. He was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, the second son of Ernest John Bruton, an engineer, and Marjorie Bruton née Briars. He was educated at Warwick School, where he boarded from the age of seven and wa