John Stanley Batchelor was a member of a distinguished medical family in New Zealand. His grandfather, Ferdinand Campion Batchelor MRCS 1871, trained at Guy's and emigrated to Dunedin in 1874 where he established an obstetrics and gynaecology practice, becoming the University of Otago's first Profes

Anthony Fogg was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. He was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, on 21 June 1950, the son of Harry Fogg, a business executive, and Linda Doreen Fogg née Harrhy. He was educated at Nottage Primary School, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, and Cowbridge

Michael Pickering Pick was born on 6 August 1919, the son of Surgeon Rear-Admiral Bryan Pickering Pick and the grandson of T Pickering Pick, surgeon to St George's Hospital and editor of *Gray's Anatomy* from 1883 to 1905. He was educated at Sherborne and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School,

John Bruce Kyle was born in Ballylinny, County Antrim, on 13 May 1909, the son of John Kyle, a Presbyterian minister and Grace, née Moore. His early education was at Campbell College, Belfast, and he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford where he read classics and was captain of the boat club

Robert Francis Norman Duke was born in London in 1925, the son of Sir Robert Duke, and was educated at Marlborough College. In 1943, he joined the Royal Artillery, serving in India until 1947. He was commissioned in 1944, rising to the rank of Captain. After the war he read medicine at Corpus Christ

John Lister Colless Lahz was born in Murgon, Queensland, on 29 November 1925, the son of Rudolf Sergius Lahz a surgeon, and Mary Regis, née Barron. He attended Loreto Convent, Coorparoo, Queensland, and St Joseph's College, Melbourne, and later the University of Queensland Medical School in Brisbane

Henry Milsom was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 30 September 1919. His father, Edwin Henry Britton Milsom, was also a surgeon who had trained at Guy's. Mary Lavinia, née Nelson, his mother, was the daughter of Charles Moseley Nelson, a Church of England canon and the granddaughter of James Coates

Alan Fowler was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Glamorgan, Wales, at the Bridgend General Hospital and subsequently at the Princess of Wales Hospital. He was born on 18 June 1920 in Chesterfield, the son of William Charles Fowler and Nora Fowler née Barker. His mother was a hospital social worke

Duncan Davidson Cranna, son of Robert Cranna MB, ChB Aberdeen 1901, of Bolton, was born on 24 June 1909, and was educated at Merchiston Castle, Edinburgh, and at Manchester University. He graduated MB, ChB in 1934 and obtained the Conjoint Diploma in the same year. His interest in orthopaedic surger

Cornelius Hugh Cullen was born in Belfast in 1912 and qualified MB BCh BAO at Queen's University in 1935. He obtained the FRCSI in 1939; the FRCS in 1941 and the MCh Belfast in the same year. He was resident at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester, where he later became a member of the consultant staff. H

Anthony Hugh Cyril Ratliff (known as 'Tony' or 'Ratty') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in London on 18 August 1921, the first child of Sidney Ratliff, a leather manufacturer, and Mary Ratliff née Plaskett. He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar Schoo

Cicely Pepler studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and qualified MB, BS in 1944. She was Nuffield Scholar in orthopaedic surgery at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford. Other posts she held were as assistant lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine; research fel