Born on 6 June 1890 at Cardiff, the son of Charles William Marshall and Mary Jennings, he was educated at Cardiff High School and studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital where he gained a University Scholarship in 1909. He graduated in 1912 with honours in medicine, pathology and forensic medi

Thomas Alexander Ogilvie was born in Dundee on 11 April 1902. He went to school at the Morgan Academy there, and graduated in medicine at St Andrews University in 1925, being awarded a gold medal in ophthalmology. He held junior hospital appointments at the Dundee Royal Infirmary, and passed the Edi

Horace Braithwaite Bullen graduated with first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos at Cambridge in 1913. He did his medical training at Cambridge and at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he became house surgeon. He won the Walsham Prize in 1917 and the Bentley Prize in 1918. He was temporary S

Alfred John Craig was born at Porta Maggiore, Vittoriosa, Malta, on 29 May 1909. He was the fourth child and fourth son of John Craig, Chief Clerk of HM Dockyard, Malta and Sophie née Gatt. He started his education at HM Dockyard School, Malta, one of the best at the time. In due course he was admit

John Le Messurier Kneebone was born in Adelaide on March 25, 1890, the eldest son of John Henry and Mary Matilda Kneebone, of Woodville, Adelaide. He was educated at Pulteney Grammar School where he was dux in each form. He won a scholarship to St Peter's College for three years where he was dux, wi

Anthony Partridge was born on 8 February 1920, in London, the son of Walter Partridge, a dental surgeon, and Evelyn Edgar. After education at Framlingham College, Suffolk, he entered Charing Cross Hospital where he qualified and held appointments as house surgeon in general surgery, and as house sur

Born on 5 April 1880 at Memphis, Tennessee, USA, the second of the three sons of Robert Woolfenden, cotton merchant, and Sarah Smith, his wife. He was educated at Bickerton House School, Birkdale, and then entered the Liverpool Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as an undergraduate, bec

Born at Heidelberg in 1883 son of Altor Jurasz (1847-1923), Professor of Laryngology successively at Heidelberg, Lwow and Poznan, and Caroline, daughter of Thomas Gaspey, lecturer in English, his education was at Heidelberg, where he qualified in 1907, and in London, Konigsberg and Leipzig. From

Born on St David's Day 1883 in Rhymney, the third and youngest son of David Rocyn Jones, Arthur came of a family of Welsh bone-setters. His Pembrokeshire great-grandfather, Thomas Jones, was a farmer with a reputation for treating animals, whose son (1822-1877) and grandson (1847-1915) were bone-set

Born in January 1903 in Melbourne the son of the Rev Thomas Robinson, he received his early education at St Paul's School, at that time associated with the Cathedral, where he was a chorister and acquired his knowledge and love of music. He then proceeded to All Saints School and Melbourne Grammar S

Born on 19 August 1874 the son of William Roderick of Llanelly and nephew of a general practitioner in that town, he was educated at Bath College, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St George's Hospital, where he was house physician and house surgeon and later surgical registrar. In 1900 he went back t

Born on 2 September 1882 son of Charles Page of Oxton, Cheshire, he was educated at Westminster School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he had a brilliant career as student and athlete, gaining the Musgrove Scholarship for 1902-04, the Beaney Scholarship in 1907-08, the Cheselden medal, the Bristowe