Henry Leo Brewer was born on 10 June 1909 at Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. His father Sydney was a master builder and his mother Annie May de Piazza came from an Italian family who emigrated to Australia in the early 1870's and settled on land which the family still farm. His early education was

Innes Wares Brebner graduated from Edinburgh University in 1906 and was appointed house surgeon of Johannesburg Hospital in 1907. He started in general practice in 1910 and was appointed to the honorary staff of the Johannesburg Hospital as a surgeon in 1915. He served as a Captain in the South A

Muriel Sydney Hulke was born at Walmer, Kent on 17 August 1904. Her father Sydney Backhouse Hulke was a Fellow of the College and was in general practice. He was the nephew of John Whitaker Hulke who was President of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1893 to 1895. Her grandfather was also in the pr

William Eric Archer Hughes-Jones was born in Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia, on 28 April 1902 the eldest son of William Thomas Hughes-Jones, a clergyman. He attended local schools, Wesley College, Melbourne, and the University of Melbourne. He became senior lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Mel

Ambrose Edgar Woodall was born in Eccles, Lancashire on 24 April 1885, the second son of the Reverend Samuel Russell Woodall, a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Central High School and having won a science scholarship from Lancashire County Council, he became a student of

Dudley Denham Pinnock was born in Australia in 1885 and received his medical education at the University of Melbourne where he graduated MB BS in 1908. After junior appointments in Australia he came to London for surgical training and took the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 and the FRCS in 1913. During th

Little is known about Nariman Behman Kutar except that he qualified MB BS in Madras in 1957 and practised in Belfast. He was living in Blackburn, Lancs at the time of his death which is thought to have been in 1978.

Frederick William Markham Pratt was born in 1898 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the eldest son of a well known general practitioner, Dr E F Pratt. He went to Shrewsbury School and Durham University, coming to St George's Hospital to complete his medical course and qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 19

Derek Gordon Lambley was born on 8 May 1918 and was educated at Parmiter's School in Bethnal Green and University College, London, where he took a first-class BSc in anatomy. He continued clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital and won the Brackenbury Scholarship in medicine, graduating in 19

Leonard Charles Lancaster was born in Brockley, South-East London, on March 10, 1902. He was a scholar at Aske's School, Hatcham, obtained a scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge, and a further scholarship to St George's Hospital in London where he won the Allingham Prize. After house appointmen

Nicholas Talbot Hamilton was a consultant surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 7 February 1924, the son of Henry Talbot Hamilton, a general practitioner, and Elsie Maud Hamilton née Gibson, a nursing sister. He attended Melbourne Grammar School, where he

Colin Stewart McArdle was professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He was born on 10 October 1939 in Glasgow, the son of Alfred McArdle and May McArdle née Baird. Both of his parents were teachers. His sister Helen also became a doctor. He was educated at Jordanhill College School and th