Brian Maxwell Andrea was born on 26 January 1925 in Kattang, Western Australia. He studied to become a dental surgeon before graduating MB, BS from the University of Sydney. Having travelled to the UK, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1957 and worked as a registrar at the Royal Hospital, W

John Graeme Boulton Myles was an orthopaedic surgeon on Jersey. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital, qualifying MB BChir in 1950. After house jobs in the orthopaedic and plastic surgery departments at St Thomas’s, he became a surgical registrar at St Peter’s Hospital

Mihir Kumar Senapati was a medical officer in Nigeria. He was born on 30 December 1925, the second son of Nilamani Senapati, an administrator in the Indian Civil Service, and Indumati Senapati née Niyogi. He was educated at the Doon School in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India, where he gained the schoo

Leslie Klenerman was professor of orthopaedic and accident surgery at the University of Liverpool. He was born in Johannesburg on 1 May 1929. His parents, Aaron and Fanny Klenerman, were part of a Latvian and Lithuanian community which had emigrated to South Africa earlier in the century. His father

Francis Edwyn Swinnerton Keiller, known as 'Frank', was a senior consultant surgeon in the Royal Air Force, retiring with the rank of wing commander. He was born on 20 July 1927 in Nottingham. The family name was originally 'Killer' but, as he writes, he 'changed to Keiller on taking up medicine'. H

John Norman McMichael Schofield was born on 11 April 1926 in Teddington, Middlesex. He was the eldest son of James William Schofield, a consultant dental surgeon at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals in London and his wife Lena née McMichael, who was the daughter of an Edinburgh JP. Afte

Anthony Hugh Taylor Hodgkinson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the University of New South Wales (NSW) teaching hospitals. Born on 27 February 1927 in Orange, NSW, he was the son of Henry Richard Hodgkinson and his wife Sarah Elizabeth née Taylor. His father was a surgeon and a fellow of th

Datuk Konthath Achutha Menon was an eminent surgeon in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was born on 23 April 1923 in Rangoon, Burma, the son of Kunhiraman Nair Menon, a civil servant, and Paimavathy Ammal Menon. He was educated at St Antony's English High School in Rangoon, where he was a merit scholarshi

Alan Fuller was an ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was born in Swansea on 18 March 1929, one of three sons, but the only one to survive more than 24 hours. His mother, Sarah Ann (née Williams), was later an hotelier and his father Frank Austin, who died when Alan was five years

Dick Williams was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in London on 10 October 1924 to General Sir Guy Charles Williams and Ruth Eleanor Williams (née Coode), the younger of two sons. His father was a professional soldier, having served with distinction in the Firs

Peter Diggory was a consultant gynaecologist at Kingston and the Royal Marsden, who, as medical adviser to the Liberal MP David Steel, played a significant role in the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967. He was born in Titley, Herefordshire, the fourth child of Edwin Ernest Diggory, a stationmaster

John Gillingham was professor of neurosurgery at the University of Edinburgh. He was born in Dorchester, Dorset, on 15 March 1916, the son of John Herbert Gillingham, a businessman, and Lily Gillingham née Eavis. He was educated at the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester, and then studied medicine at