Alexander Innes was born in Edinburgh on 6 April 1910 the eldest son of Sir Peter D Innes, CBE, then a lecturer in physics at Edinburgh University and subsequently Director of Education in the City of Birmingham, and Maybelle Annie Stewart (née Wright). He was educated at West House School and at Ki

Kenneth Francis Cabrera was born in Sydney on 5 June 1932, the son of an accountant, Francis William Vere Cabrera, and his wife Maud. He grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney becoming a committed Christian in his youth, a faith which strongly influenced him throughout his life. He attended the Fo

Bryan Hartop Burns was born on 14 December 1896, at Higham Park, Rushden, Northants. He was the elder of the two sons of Hartop Burns, farmer, and Florence Ann, née Fuller. Both parents came from farming and landowning families in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire. He was educated first at Kimbolt

Trevor Llewellyn Bowen was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 12 March 1932 and attended schools in Wales before entering King's College, London, and King's College Hospital Medical School. After graduating in 1955 he undertook general resident appointments before working in the orthopaedic departme

Geoffrey Hyman was born in Leeds on 16 August 1908 and educated at Leeds Central High School and Leeds University, where he graduated in 1931. After house appointments at Leeds General Infirmary and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, he took the FRCS in 1937. During the second world

Little is known about the life and career of Mowaffak Tawfeek Mahmood. After obtaining his Fellowship in 1967, he lived and worked in Baghdad, where in 1980 he served in the orthopaedic department of the Rasheed Military Hospital. Not even the date of his death can be established with certainty. Dr

Ian Pike qualified in Sydney in 1974, where he did house appointments at the Royal North Shore Hospital before becoming resident medical officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. In 1976 he went to England, where he was registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford for two years, after which he passed t

William Arthur Elliston (Bill) was born in Ipswich on 4 October 1904. His father, William Rowley Elliston OBE, was a barrister who became Recorder of Great Yarmouth and Mayor of Ipswich and his mother was Ethel Mary, nee Walton. Many of his family had been associated with the medical profession and

John Baily was born in Southampton on 29 June 1919, the only son of Guy Baily, an engineer, and of his wife, Kathleen Mary, née Tarrant. His father was at sea while John was a boy, so during his early years he lived with his grandparents in Glasgow. His first school was Glasgow Academy, where his fa

While Arthur Orfeur Parker, affectionately known as AO, was born in June 1893 in Wellington, Somerset, and went to school at West Buckland, his medical education was in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba following emigration to Canada as a young man. It is known that he served with the Canadi

Little is known of the career of Thomas Charles Howard Davies, beyond that he received his medical education at Cardiff, qualified MB, ChB Wales in 1940 and gained his Fellowship in 1949. He specialized in orthopaedics and was at one time a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and se

David Millward Davies was born in Gwaelod-y-Garth and educated at Pontypridd Grammar School before entering the Welsh National School of Medicine where he graduated BSc in 1941 and MB, ChB in 1944. His first appointment was at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, under the wartime Emergency Medical Service.