Rodney Campbell Curry was a consultant surgeon at Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland. He was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, in 1928, the son of William Clive Curry, a land officer, and Louie Eleanor Curry née Biddle. He attended school in the UK, including at East Grinstead, Sussex, and wen

Bernard Broadhurst studied medicine at Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1952. After junior posts he specialised in orthopaedics and was a registrar at Colchester, St Thomas's and the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the

Dudley Churchill-Davidson was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, London. He was born on 11 May 1927, the son of Frederick Churchill-Davidson and Marie Peacock Churchill-Davidson née Jacques. His father, a University of Edinburgh-educated doctor, had

Geoffrey Michael Boone Bulman was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Cornwall. He was born on 21 September 1927 in Norwich, Norfolk, the son of Michael Waldo Boone Bulman, an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and Muriel Louise Bulman née Hewlett, the daughter of Richar

Christopher Savage was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, and the Southend General Hospital, where he developed a special interest in microsurgery of the ear. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 21 November 1915, he was part of the third generation of a family of surgeons.

Dick Greenwood was born on 3 May 1928, the son of John Herbert Kay Greenwood, and Hilda née Wild. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he rowed for his college, and did his clinical training at St Thomas's. After junior appointments in London, Exeter and Gl

Born in 1928 of a medical family of five generations, son of John Richard Griffith FRCS and Elsie Maud Griffith MRCS, he was educated at Stowe School, Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won the E G Fearnsides scholarship, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Soon after qualification in 1952 Griffith wa

John Douglas Chalmers Anderson, known as ‘Jock’, was an ophthalmologist who spent much of his career working in Afghanistan. He was born in Redbourne, Lincolnshire, on 21 August 1924, the second of three sons of William Larmour Anderson, a general practitioner, and Eileen Pearl née Chambers. He was