Elphick graduated in medicine from Sydney University in 1955. He came to England for postgraduate study and took the Fellowship in December 1964. After three months (January to March 1965) as resident surgical officer at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, he went abroad. He was accidentally kille

After qualifying and holding training posts in Prince Henry's Hospital, and in Concord and Broken Hill, Robin Colman came to England in 1963, working mostly at Cheltenham, and passed the Fellowship in 1964. He returned to Australia to practise in Vaucluse, New South Wales, and died on 20 August 1979

Dipak Khandubhai Desai, first son of Khandubhai Desai, a medical practitioner, and of Lilayatiben Desai, was born in Naysan, India, on 2 January 1932. He was educated at Naysan High School, Elphinstone College and then Grant Medical College, Bombay. After resident appointments there he held various

After passing his FRCS, Mohamed Chaaban returned to work in Egypt, where he died on 2 May 1997.

John Kilshaw was educated at Manchester University where he gained first class honours in physiology in his BSc in 1956 and qualified MB ChB in 1959. After qualification he held house posts and registrarships at Ancoats Hospital and Withington Hospital, Manchester, and at the Manchester Royal Infirm

Born in Bengal, Nripendra Nandi qualified from the National Medical School of Calcutta in 1959 and after junior posts did postgraduate work in Delhi, where he obtained the MS. He came to England and studied for the FRCS, working for a time as a locum consultant surgeon in Ards Hospital, Newtownards,

John Cameron Mountain was born in Southend on 8 April 1935. Educated at Latymer Upper School and Charing Cross Hospital he graduated in medicine in 1959. After house appointments he gained the Primary FRCS and held posts in Birmingham at the Accident Hospital, General Hospital, and Children's Hospit

Ahmed Zaki El Ghatit was born in Egypt on 2 October 1931, the eighth child of Aly, a lawyer, and Fatma. He was educated at the College des Frères and at Cairo University, graduating MB, BCh in 1955. He passed the FRCS (and MRCS) examinations in 1964 and FRCS Ed in 1963 . He worked at the London Hosp

Chaman Lal Sarin received his medical education at the University of the Punjab where he qualified MB BS in 1958. After coming to Britain and gaining the Fellowship in 1964, he moved to the United States where he practised in the 1970s at West Bloomfield, Michigan, though thereafter he gave his addr

After receiving his medical education in Bombay, Anant Kolgaonkar came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1964. He then went to practice in Tanga, Tanzania where he died in 1999. Unfortunately the College has no details of his subsequent career.

John James McGhee, known as ‘Jack’, was a surgeon in the Canadian town of Prince Georgia, British Columbia (BC). He was born in Princeton, BC, on 6 December 1931 and raised in Trail. His parents, Thomas Doyle McGhee, a miner, and Agnes Wilson McGhee, both originally from Glasgow, agreed that Jack an

Nitya Bhattacharjee was a consultant surgeon who worked in Manchester. He died on 14 August 2010 aged 79 years, survived by his wife, Christa and sons Jonathan and Nicholas.