Born in 1902 at New Plymouth, New Zealand, he was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago University, Dunedin, graduating in 1924. After holding resident posts at Auckland Hospital in 1925-26, he spent 1927 as a Government medical officer in Levuka, one of the Fiji Islands. He came to England

Arthur Pinkerton Crawford, the son of Andrew Pinkerton Crawford, a doctor, and his wife Lilian Mary, née Donnelly, was born on 22 September 1923 at Caboolture, Queensland, Australia. At the age of ten he spent a year confined to bed as a result of polio and was educated at the Church of England Gram

Gordon Ormandy was a general surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1960 and was appointed surgeon at a hospital in Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1964. Eleven years later, in 1975, he moved to Adelaide with his wife Joy and their four children. He retired

Walter John Burfitt-Williams was born in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, on 27 June 1927. His father, Grosvenor John Williams, was an ophthalmic surgeon. His mother, Mary Boyd Burfitt, was a physician. Two of his brothers were doctors - Thomas was a physician and Grosvenor, an ophthalmologist. Walter was

Kevin Chambers was a consultant surgeon in Mildura, Victoria, Australia. He grew up in Sydney, the youngest of three children of Raymond John Chambers and Margaret Scott Chambers née Brown. His father Ray was the first professor of accounting at Sydney University. His work on accounting attracted ci

Mr Alan Bromwich OBE KStJ RFD MB BS FRCS FRACS had the reputation of a fearless and fast surgeon, but at the same time a gentle and knowledgeable man. Born in England in 1924, Alan graduated in Medicine from King's College Cambridge in 1945, then served with the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948.

Edwin Carr was both a surgeon and a successful athlete. Born in Sydney on 2 September 1928, he was the son of Edwin ‘Slip’ Carr, a sprinter who represented Australia in the 1924 Paris Olympics and was a semi-finalist in the 100 meters. Edwin Junior was Australian 440 yard champion in 1949/50 and 195

Keith Ewen was born in Lower Hutt, the son of David Ewen and Marian Nathan. His father was managing-director of Sargood Son & Ewen, a prominent family business, Mayor of Lower Hutt and subsequently knighted for his many community and business contributions. There were two older siblings – brother, I

John Edward Reimer was a surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1957. In 2014 he published a book on medical education in New South Wales entitled *Becoming a surgeon and the Sydney Hospital Clinical School* (Nannup, WA, MBS press, 2014). He died on 10 A

Few surgeons lived their lives as fully as Desmond Albert Cooper, Dr Des. He was an astonishingly good surgeon, a fine man and a man of many talents. As my son said ‘The Doc was funny, generous, kind, helpful, clever, and friendly and a great sailor and a good fisherman.’ Before he died we chatt

Ken Brearley started life in Hampton (Melbourne) where he attended both Hampton Primary and Hampton High schools before winning a scholarship for Years 9-12 at Scotch College, which was quite some distance away in Hawthorn. In 1948, having won a place into Medicine at the University of Melbourne in

Kevin William Hinrichsen was born on 7 December 1924, the eldest child of William Henry Hinrichsen, a Church of Christ minister and general practitioner at Thornbury and Florence (nee Hall), a school teacher. His later schooling was at Scotch College where he was an outstanding under age athlete and