After qualifying MB BS with honours at Adelaide University in 1946 and a house appointment there, McCann served as a medical officer with the Australian forces in Japan in 1947-8. Coming to Britain in 1949 he held several junior posts before taking his Fellowship in 1951, and then was a registrar at

Few details are known of the life and work of Edwin French. He qualified in Toronto during the war. He came to England to specialise in surgery after the war and returned to Canada to work in Toronto. He died on February 8 1997.

Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Richard Nash was the son of Gerald and Margaret Nash. He was educated at University College Dublin, and came to England to specialise in surgery, doing a number of registrar jobs in London before taking the FRCS in 1951. He went to Canada in 1952, practising in Fort Garry

Charles Bruce Noble was born at Blantyre, Scotland, on 7 October 1919. His father, James Noble, was a consultant mining engineer. His mother was Shelagh Maclean, a farmer's daughter. He was educated at Hamilton Academy and Glasgow University, where he qualified with a distinction in material medica.

After qualifying in 1946 McGarry spent some time as an honorary demonstrator in anatomy at Queen's University Belfast, later becoming resident surgical officer of the Mater Infirmary Hospital, Belfast, and then surgeon at the same hospital. He died in December 1991, his death being reported to the C

Ian Howard Ogilvy was resident junior medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1943 and progressed to senior medical officer and then to assistant surgeon in 1952. He was honorary surgeon to the Austin Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital from 1952 to 1957, assistant surgeon at

Eric Murray studied medicine in Aberdeen, qualifying in 1944. After junior posts, he did his National Service, and afterwards worked as a registrar on rotation at Luton and Dunstable, the Central Middlesex and the Royal Free Hospitals. In 1959, he was appointed consultant surgeon initially at Tilbur

John (Jack) Trengove Jones was born in Paarl, South Africa, on 20 February 1918, and was educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School and the University of Cape Town. He obtained his MB ChB at the beginning of the second world war, and later served with the South African Medical Corps in Egypt, at Sprin

Tara Chandra was principal of the Kanpur Medical College, India. He was born on 25 August 1925, in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh state, and received his medical education at KG Medical College, Lucknow, gaining 16 medals and prizes, and coming first in the final MB BS. After junior posts in Lucknow,

John Gerald Callanan was born in Ennis, County Clare, on 21 June 1920, the son of John Callanan, a British Government Official, and his wife, Margaret. He spent his early years in England, returning for schooling to Mount Mellory where he attended the veterinary college for a while before transferri

Arnold Katz was born on 10 September 1920 in the town of Benoni in the East Rand, the eldest son of Abe and Anne Katz. His parents were expatriate Lithuanian Jews, and his father was a businessman in the import and export trade, who later moved to Cape Town. Both his parents died at an early age and

Harry Annamunthodo was born on 26 April 1920 in British Guiana, now Guyana. He was proud to claim as an ancestor an Indian Sepoy transported after the Mutiny. He was educated at Queen's College, Georgetown, before entering the London Hospital Medical College in 1941, at that time evacuated to Cambri