George H Kitchen graduated from the University of Toronto in 1932. He joined the surgical staff of St Joseph's Hospital and was former chief of staff and surgery at the Queensway Hospital. He died on 13 May 1982 aged 73, survived by his wife, Mary, daughter Heather and sons George, David, Paul and J

Ramaswami Mahadevan was born on 6 January 1903 in Tamil Nadu, South India, the ninth child of Ramaswami Iyer, headmaster of a secondary school. He was educated at Presidency College, Madras, before entering the University of Madras Medical College from which he qualified in 1926. After hospital appo

Leon Chanock qualified MB ChB 1925, and in the same year his name appeared on the register of South African medical practitioners. By working through issues of the South African Medical Register, it seems that from 1977 until his death he practised at Bantry Bay, Cape Town. His death appeared in the

Anthony (Tony) Kelly was born in Melbourne on 8 November 1909, the son of Piers Lefanu Kelly, a mining engineer, and Anna Dorothy, née Keelan. He was educated at Bacchus Marsh High School in Victoria, St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Victoria, and the University of Melbourne Medical School, where he

Stanley Raw was born on 23 February 1910 in Spratton, Northamptonshire, where his father, George Raw, was vicar, and his mother was Ada, née Morton. One of his uncles was consultant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Another uncle was a physician in Rodney Street, Liverpoo

Harold Park was horn on 26 July 1909 at Preston, Lancashire, and studied medicine in Edinburgh, qualifying in 1932. His early appointments included the posts of casualty officer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and resident medical officer at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases. In 1938

Edward Philomen Connolly, of whom little is known, was in practice in Manley, New South Wales, when he died on 21 August 1967. He was a member of the Australian Medical Association.

Thomson qualified from the University of Sydney in 1928 and worked at Sydney Hospital as resident medical officer 1928-29 and surgical registrar 1929-30. He was in England during 1932-33 when he obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Fellowship of the Royal Coll

John Charles Hislop, son of a well-known Wellington surgeon, was born in Wellington, educated at Christ's College and Edinburgh University. He graduated MB ChB in 1932 and proceeded to take his FRCS in 1938. He had an unusually wide training as a house surgeon, registrar and resident surgeon and thi

Arthur Littlewood Newson was born at Wishpool, Victoria, Australia, on 22 August 1906. He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and Melbourne University, qualifying MB BS in 1932 and was resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital. He came to England and worked with Rodney Maingot, obtaining

Edward Harold Walter Gifford was the son of Algernon Charles Gifford, a school- teacher and astronomer, and of Susie Gifford (née Jones). He was born at Wellington, New Zealand, on 26 May 1909 and educated at Roseneath Primary School and Wellington College where he was deputy head prefect, played in

Karmarkar was born in Kolhapur, India, on 19 March 1909, the son of Hari Dattatraya Karmarkar, a general practitioner, and Savitri Hari Karmarkar, a housewife. He was educated at the King George High School, Mudhol, and Deccan College of Arts, Poona, from which he went to study medicine at the Seth