Raymond Calderwood was born on 11 August 1919 and was educated at Wanstead High School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. While a student he represented his hospital and the Eastern Counties at Rugby football. After qualification he held house appointments at Croydon and Southend, before joining the RAM

William Joseph Metcalfe was born on 7 March 1921 in Winnipeg. His parents came from Yorkshire, but he went to school at St Bernadene's College in Buckinghamshire. It was in 1944, at the age of 23, that he started medical studies at Manchester University and graduated MB ChB in 1949. He had a brillia

Nathaniel Arnold Jyarajah Niles was practising in Colombo, Sri Lanka, when he died on 16 August 1978, survived by his wife.

William O'Flynn was born in County Limerick on 12 April 1927, into a family with a long tradition in medicine as general practitioners. Unfortunately no details of his forbears are available. After education at Presentation College, Bray, County Wicklow he entered the National University of Ireland

Frank Haine was born in Little Wolford, Oxfordshire, on 13 November 1909, the eldest of four boys. His father, Robert John Haine, was a farmer who had moved from Somerset to the north Cotswolds after the death of his first wife. His mother, Marianne Baines Horne, was the daughter of a corn merchant

John Stuart Martin was senior consultant otolaryngologist at Hull Royal Infirmary. He was born on 19 June 1917 in Robinstown, County Meath, and qualified from Queen's University Belfast in 1939. After completing his junior appointments in Belfast he joined the RAMC, where he served in North Africa a

Lou Opit was Professor of Community Medicine at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He was born in Curra Mulka, South Australia, on 22 November 1927. His father, Leon, was a medical practitioner, and his mother was Bertha née Goldman. He was educated at St Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide, and

Robert (Robin) Welsh was born on 23 April 1928 in Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa, the eldest son of Dr Robert William Hepburn Welsh, a general practitioner in Pretoria for thirty years, and Evelyn Jessie Watson. He was educated at St John's College, Johannesburg, and the University of Witwatersran