Nothing is known about Charles Murray Dransfield except that he passed the Fellowship in 1946 and was living in Aston-under-Lyne, Lancs at the time of his death on 15 September 1981.

Thomas Henry Cullen (Tom) was born on 6 February 1917 in Kelvedon, Essex. A farmer’s son, he was born and brought up on Clarke’s Farm. Educated at Colchester Grammar School, he opted to study medicine as farming in Essex was not particularly productive in the 1930s. He entered the Middlesex Hospital

Hilary (Larry) Wade was born on 13 February 1916 at 25 Park Place, Cardiff, the house where his father James (Jimmy) Wade OBE, FRCS (qv *Lives of the Fellows* 1952-64) a distinguished surgeon and anatomist had lived, and where he himself was to live and practise for over thirty years. His mother Kat

Arsene Klidjian was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 22 April 1918. His father, Karnig Klidjian, was a pharmacist and among those who had fled Armenia in the Turkish massacres. Arsene was educated at Victoria College. His elder brother was expected to help run the family business, but Arsene was sent t

Geoffrey Forbes Homer was a general surgeon. Born on 4 July 1911 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, he was the son of James Homer, a merchant and local mayor, and his wife Alice, a teacher. He studied medicine at the University of Manitoba where he was awarded the Isbister scholarship. After graduation in 19

John William Gummer, known as 'Peter', was a gastrointestinal surgeon at the Central Middlesex Hospital in London. He was born on 29 December 1918 and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1941. Prior to his appointment as a consultant, he was a house surgeon at

John Penry studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he became obstetric officer and casualty officer. He was house surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then took up the part-time post of medical referee to the Welsh Office in Cardiff. He was a member of the Glamorgan Loca

James Albert Rhind studied medicine at Leeds University where he graduated MB ChB with first class honours in 1937 and won the William Hey Gold Medal of the University. He worked as resident surgical officer to the Leeds Infirmary and was surgeon specialist in the RAMC during the second world war. H

Born on 31 December 1917, Baron was educated at Oundle, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. During the second world war he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Burma and the Far East. After the war he was a registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital and research fe

Douglas Robert Leslie was a general surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire on 23 February 1914, he was the third child and second son of the Reverend Ernest Thomas Leslie, who was an Anglican priest, and his wife Margaret Jane (Jenny) née Maggs. After starting his ed

Denis Thompson qualified in Birmingham and after doing house jobs specialised in surgery. He emigrated to Australia where he practiced in Bunbury, Western Australia. He continued to be active until his 80's and was still doing three jobs at the time of his death at the age of 83. He died on a cruise

Alan Brock McCarten was a surgeon in Edmonton, Manitoba. Born in Winnipeg on 11 January 1919, he was the second son of Daniel Alexander McCarten, a dental surgeon, and his wife, Ella Isobel née Goldthorpe, the daughter of a lumber mill operator. After attending Kelvin High School in Winnipeg he won