Peter Roberts was professor of military surgery for the Army Medical Services. He was born in Manchester on 20 December 1940 at the height of the Manchester Blitz to George and Edith Roberts. Edith died when Peter was nine months old, and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Annie and Bob Robert

Raymond Nim-Wah Chan, known as Ray, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester and a surgeon at Leicester City Football Club, and one of the first Chinese orthopaedic surgeons to come to the UK. He was born on 28 July 1939 in Hong Kong, the son of Chan Ying Hung, a prominent lawyer, and Glady

Roger Stephen Davies was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Wigan. He was born on 4 February 1942 in north Wales, the eldest son of T Davies, a general practitioner. His early years were spent in Mold. He and his two brothers were left fatherless when his father died prematurely from heart disease.

In a wide-ranging career, James Ware was a surgeon and medical educator in Europe, Africa, the Far East and Middle East. He was born on 8 July 1941, the son of Martin Ware, a former editor of the *BMJ*. His father was a great influence on his life and, even latterly, he recounted with fondness famil

John Cappin was a consultant ophthalmologist at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1975 to 1999. He was born in London in 1938 to Louis and Yetta Cappin; his father was a clothing manufacturer in the East End of London and Cumbernauld, Scotland. John was the eldest of three brothers. He attended Mercers

Revanappa Tirkappa Kulkarni was a surgeon in Gadag-Betageri, Karnataka, India. He was born in Savanur, in Dharwar district, Mysore State, on 6 March 1937, one of 14 children of Tirkappa Ningappa Kulkarni, the town clerk and a landlord, and Nilgangawa Kulkarni née Godhi. Only six children survived in

John Jeffrey Price (known as Jeff) was a consultant general surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and a senior lecturer in surgery at the University of Leeds. He was one of the youngest consultant general surgeons at the time, having been appointed at the age of 31, and one of the very few in the coun

Richard Guy Fiddian-Green was professor of general surgery at the University of Massachusetts. Born on 8 March 1940 in Matatiele, East Griqualand, South Africa, he was the second son of two doctors, William Brandreth Fiddian-Green, a GP, and his wife, Isobel Alys (known as Alys). Her father was Colo

Bhaskarnath Rughoonundon was a general surgeon in Mauritius. He was born in Surinam, a village on Mauritius, on 28 July 1939, a time when life was tough and money was scarce. His father, a small scale planter, wanted a different destiny for his only son, and decided he should become a doctor ‘…becau

Mahmood Ahmadi was a surgeon at the Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He was born into a privileged family in the small agricultural village of Vastan in Iran not far from Tehran. As an infant, he survived an earthquake to which many of his siblings succumbed. Growing

Roger Abbey Smith was a consultant surgeon at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry. He was born in Birkenhead. At the age of 11 he was deeply affected by the early death of his mother from psittacosis pneumonia caught from the family parrot, despite being attended by Henry Cohen, arguably the most celebrate

Sachindra Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on 20 June 1928, the son of a marine official in the British India Steam Navigation Company. He received his early schooling in Calcutta, attended Calcutta Science College where he obtained a BSc, and graduated MB BS from the National Medical College in 1