Keith Giles was a consultant general surgeon at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, and the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Welwyn. He qualified in 1953 from the London Hospital Medical School. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a surgical specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, a surgica

John Charles Sandeman was an orthopaedic surgeon at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals on the Wirral. Born on 10 January 1929 in Umtata, South Africa, he was the son of Ian Roberts, an insurance broker, and his wife Marie Jessie née Hughes. He was educated at Durban High School which he attende

Kenneth Leonard Cleminson was an orthopaedic surgeon in Queensland, Australia. He was born on 23 May 1924 in London, the son of Leonard James Cleminson, a master builder, and Ada Aderline Cleminson née Soar, the daughter of a violinist. He was educated at Water Lane Boys' School in West Ham and Borl

Natesan Rangabashyam, who was based in Madras, established the subspecialty of surgical gastroenterology in India. He was born on 5 November 1936, the son of a general practitioner. He originally intended to become a pilot, but joined Loyola College in Madras to study natural sciences. He then studi

Norman Adrian Boyd was born on 1 May 1934 in Hendon, the son of the Reverend Norman Robert Boyd who was a vicar in the Church of England and his wife Kathleen née Humby. After attending Arnold House Preparatory School in North London, he went to Marlborough College and then studied medicine at Chari

Roderick McLeod was a general surgeon at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, and professor of surgery at the University of Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 10 April 1933, the second child and first son of George Cooper McLeod, a wholesale and retail merchant, and Josephine Gert

Robert Clark Campbell (known as 'Bob') was a consultant plastic surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He was born in Dundee on 31 January 1931, the only son of Archibald and Agnes Campbell. Following school in Dundee and then Southampton, he decided upon a career in medicine and he graduated

Dhirajlal Ramji Bhadreshwar was an orthopaedic surgeon in Barnsley who, after his retirement from the NHS, worked in Bangladesh, Nepal and Inner Mongolia, treating patients with leprosy. He was born in Dar es Salaam, in what was then Tanganyika in East Africa on 23 June 1929. His family home was, ho