A group of 12 surgeons who work with military patients at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) are preparing to cycle more than 300 miles to Belgium, in aid of the hospital’s official charity.

The team will be beginning their challenge at the hospital and riding to the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, which is dedicated to the memory of more than 54,000 soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient in World War I and whose graves are unknown.

The group’s journey will start on 27 May, and they hope to finish in just four days, taking a route via RAF Brize Norton and Headley Court, a centre for the rehabilitation of injured service personnel.

Rhodri Williams, a consultant maxillofacial surgeon who lives in Stourbridge, is leading the team and said: “By virtue of working at the hospital, we are involved in the care of wounded military personnel from Iraq, Afghanistan and other theatres of conflict.

“We feel very privileged to look after these amazing individuals and have all at some time or other been moved by their courage, both in their profession and also in their attitude to recovery.

“Through this cycle ride we hope to raise some funds for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity to try and help make some of the time they spend being treated at the hospital a little easier.”

To sponsor the team, please visit their Virgin Money Giving page.