John Matheson was a former professor of military surgery at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London. He was born in Gibraltar on 6 August 1912, the son of John Matheson, the then manager of the Eastern Telegraph station, and Nina. The family later moved on to Malta and then to Port Said. Jo

Born 19 August 1876, elder son of John William Collinson, wool merchant of Halifax, and Frances Whiteley, his wife. He was educated at the Quaker schools at Ackworth and Bootham, and at the Yorkshire College Medical School at Leeds. He received his clinical training at the Leeds General Infirmary, w

Born 10 March 1881 at Hinckley, Leicestershire, the second child and only son of Edward Simpson, a schoolmaster, and Charlotte McCann, his wife. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, and took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos,

Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 11 January 1863, the fifth son and eighth child of Edward Richardson and his wife, *née* Hutton. His father, an iron and steel merchant and paper manufacturer, lived afterwards at Cotfield House, Gateshead-on-Tyne. W G Richardson was educated at Leys School, Cambridge, w

Arnold Gourevitch was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Paris on 24 February 1914, the son of Russian Jewish émigrés. At the outbreak of the first world war his parents fled to England, eventually settling in Birmingham. His father, Mendel, later qualified as a doctor and became a g

Dent was educated at Mason College, Birmingham and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London from which he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1897; after study at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School he took the Durham University MB in 1898. He served as a civil surgeon with the South African Field Fo

Born on 14 November 1892, he was educated at Blundell's School and Bristol University. He interrupted his medical education when war broke out in 1914 to join the Gloucestershire Regiment as a combatant officer. He resumed his medical studies in 1917 and qualified the following year with the Conjoin

Born 12 June 1876 at 23 Portland Square, Carlisle, the eldest son of. Roderick Maclaren, MD, surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary, and Isabella Emma Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Rugby when Dr Percival was headmaster, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge as a pensioner on 25 June 1894. He

Born at Malmesbury, Wiltshire on 13 July 1867 the second son of Colonel J R Luce DL, JP and Mary Visger his wife. He was educated at Clifton College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1889, and graduated in medicine in 1893. He

Ernest Cowell was born on 24 February 1886, son of Jasper Cowell of Steyning, Sussex, and was educated at Steyning Grammar School and University College Hospital Medical School where he graduated in 1907, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and went on to take his MD degree in 1909 and the Fe

Ralph Coyte, or "Dan" as he was generally known to his friends, was born on 3 May 1893 and went to Bart's for his medical studies, and while there distinguished himself on the rugger field. Early in the first world war he served in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer, being discharged later to c

Philip Reginald Hawe was born at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Eire, in 1900. The family moved to Liverpool in 1905 and as a result he was educated there at the Catholic Institute in Hope Street. In his senior year he was awarded the Robert Gee Scholarship in medicine and the John Rankin Scholarship in engin