Harold Walter Henry Shepperd was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast with a special interest in head and neck surgery. He was born in Belfast on 24 May 1924, the first child of Reginald Henry Shepperd, a director of Ulster bank, and Kathleen Maude Shepperd née West.

John Stuart Martin was senior consultant otolaryngologist at Hull Royal Infirmary. He was born on 19 June 1917 in Robinstown, County Meath, and qualified from Queen's University Belfast in 1939. After completing his junior appointments in Belfast he joined the RAMC, where he served in North Africa a