Debabrata Roy graduated in India and came to England for higher surgical training. He worked at the County Hospital, Louth, Lincolnshire from August 1966 till May 1969, and during this period he obtained the FRCS in December 1968. Roy was killed in a motor car accident on 22 May 1969, and was sur

Arikkath Koottala Vasudevan came to England from India, and in 1968 he passed the examinations for Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He returned to India and practiced at the Surgical Nursing Home, College Road, Palghat, India. In January 1973 Mrs Vasudevan no

Nikhendu Majindar qualified MB BS Calcutta in 1960. Coming to Britain he gained the Fellowship of the Edinburgh College in 1967 and the following year obtained the English Fellowship. Moving to Canada, he practised at Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan, from 1973 and worked at the Porcupine Carragana

John Michael Woodward qualified in Melbourne in 1963. He passed his Fellowship of the College in 1968 and the following year became senior registrar to the Bristol Regional Neurosurgical Unit until 1971 when he returned to Australia. He was appointed neurosurgeon to the Austin Hospital, Heidelber

After qualifying in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Hiary Kumarasinghe worked as a house officer in the General Hospital for four years and then as a registrar in the University Hospital, before going to England to specialise in surgery in 1964. He did junior posts at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospit

Bimal Kumar Moulik was born at Nagara Birblum, Bengal, India, on 1 April 1935. He was educated at the Scottish Universities Institution, Kalimpong, Viddyasagar College, Suri, and the Medical College, Calcutta. He graduated MB BS Calcutta in 1957, MS Delhi 1962 and FRCS 1968. He was honorary lectu

Kenneth Mallett qualified from St Mary's Hospital in 1959 and after practising as ENT house surgeon decided to specialise in that field. He became a senior registrar in ENT at St Mary's, was a senior specialist in ENT in the Royal Air Force, and finally became consultant surgeon to the Lincoln Count

Brian Hayes was a consultant surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, Pontypridd. He was born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, in 1929, the son of a miner. He was brought up in the north east of England, until the family moved to south Wales. He studied medicine in Newcastle, and went on to hold junior posts in

Tom Brennan was a general surgeon in Leeds and an outstanding trainer, both of medical students and postgraduate trainees. He was born in Dundalk and graduated from University College Dublin in 1962, before going to England to specialise in surgery. After junior posts in London he became a registrar

Gareth Gambold Thomas was born on 13 July 1937 at Tonypandy, South Wales. After education at Porth County Grammar School and Edinburgh University he began his training in paediatric surgery in Swansea, continuing it in Edinburgh and again in Wales at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. After becoming FRCS

Vettivetpillai Ketharanathan or ‘Nathan’ was a senior research associate at the vascular surgery unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, on 25 November 1935 to Appiah Ketharanathan and Rukmani Nama (Sivayam) Ketharanathan, who were both teachers.

Byomkes Mitra, known to all as 'Sona', was a former consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at Crawley and Redhill Hospitals. He was born on 1 June 1931 into a landowning family in Suri, West Bengal. His father, Barunish Mitra, was a general practitioner and eye specialist who carried out ophthalmic