Joseph Craig was one of the five sons of a Highland clergyman. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and St Andrews University, where he read medicine and qualified MB ChB in 1919 in spite of repeated ill health. He was house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Dundee and then held posts at St Luke's Hos

Qualifying from Edinburgh University in 1902, Collins seems to have practised abroad, probably in South Africa. He was in England for some years from 1910 when he took the Conjoint Diploma, and proceeded to the Diploma in Public Health in 1914 and the Fellowship in 1915. After the first world war he

John Bertram Gilchrist Muir was born on 18 July 1899 at Kai Yuan, Manchuria, where his father, who had qualified in Edinburgh, was a medical missionary. He was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, Eltham College in London and the Middlesex Hospital. His medical training was interrupted by

Geraldine Mary Barry was born on 4 October at Wakes Colne, Essex, the daughter of the Reverend Walter and Anna Barry. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and was originally destined to read mathematics at Cambridge, but this was changed by the visit of Professor Winifred Cullis (Prof

Mildred Faulkner (née Warde) was born in Knowsley, Lancs, on 18 February 1897 the daughter of Wilfred Brougham Warde who was medically qualified holding a London MD. She was educated at Hamilton House, Tunbridge Wells, and studied at Manchester University from 1915 to 1918. She studied medicine at t

George Gordon Bruce was born at Aberdeen on 25 August 1891. He was educated at Fordyce Academy and Aberdeen University and was awarded the Keith Gold Medal in surgery, graduating MB ChB Aberdeen in 1915. He then served as a Captain RAMC in France and the Dardanelles and was mentioned in dispatches i