Born on 22 January 1865 at Duns, Berwickshire, third son of Robert Charles MacWatt, MD, who practised there, and Ann Logan, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and University, and commissioned surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on 1 October 1887. He served on the North-West Frontier an

Paul Hawley was born on January 21, 1891, the son and grandson of doctors, and he practised with his father in the small Indiana town where he was born, and thus learned the hard way the duties of a country family doctor. He had graduated with the MD degree of the University of Cincinnati in 1914, a

Born on 20 March 1872, son of John Fell JP, DL of Ulverston, Lancashire, he was educated at Sedburgh and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1898. He then joined the RAMC and served throughout the South African War, being awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps and the Kind's medal w

Thompson graduated in science at the University of Manchester in 1938, and qualified there in 1941. After house appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary, he was senior surgical registrar at Crumpsall Hospital. Having qualified during the second world war, Thompson joined the RAMC and, subsequen

Born on 14 May 1889 he received his medical education in Liverpool and at the London Hospital. On joining the IMS as a Lieutenant on 26 July 1913, he obtained the first Montefiore Prize and Medal in Military Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College in London in 1913. He served as regimental medi

Biggar was born at Gateshead and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital; while there he won the junior and senior Platt Scholarships; the Matthew Duncan Prize; the Herbert Prize; the Parkes Memorial Prize; and a silver medal at the first Montefiore Prize. He held a number of r

Born 14 October 1876, he was educated at Edinburgh University and the Medical School of the Edinburgh Royal Colleges, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He served as house physician at the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, and as house surgeon at the General

Born 17 August 1864 at Digby, Nova Scotia, the son of Alexander Macnab, civil engineer. He was educated at Winchester and received his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon after taking the Conjoint qualification in 1887. At Netley, where he trained for the In

Born on May 29th, 1814. He entered the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on July 29th, 1845, was promoted to Surgeon on May 2nd, 1862, and to Surgeon Major on July 29th, 1865. He saw active service in the Second Sikh or Punjab War of 1848-1849, being present at the siege and capture of Multan, for wh

Was a Surgeon in the Madras Army. He died apparently in 1885 or 1886.

Leonard Dudley Heaton was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on 18 November 1902, the son of George and Emma Heaton, and after early education attended Denison University at Granville, Ohio, before entering the University of Louisville, Kentucky, for his Doctor of Medicine degree, awarded in 1926.

Francis Wilfred Peter Dixon was born in Australia and educated at Newman College and Melbourne University where he graduated in 1930. He joined the Royal Air Force Medical Service in the same year. After serving abroad in Iraq and Aden as medical officer to 33 and 101 Squadrons he was posted to Abin