'Dan' Desmond was born in London on 18 August 1912, the second son of Dennis William Andrew Desmond, a pharmacist, and Violet Amy née More. He was educated at St Aloysius College, Highgate, and the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1934, and was house surgeon, receiving room officer, and clinic

Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, William George Quincey Mills qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1934 and later obtained the MB, BCh at Cambridge and became a Fellow of the College in 1936. After junior posts at St Thomas's Hospital and the Radcliffe I

John Hughes studied medicine at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After early appointments as house surgeon at the Miller General Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital he became assistant medical officer to Down's Hospital, Sutton. He became a Fellow of the College in 1936 and moved to Shef

Frank Evans was a consultant general surgeon in Liverpool. He was born in Ffynnongrowy, a small mining village in north Wales on 20 May 1910. His father Evan Evans was the local GP, who had originally been apprenticed to a qualified doctor and by the time he started medical training in Glasgow had a

Henry Shucksmith was the third child of Thomas Warth Shucksmith, a farmer of Alvington, Lincolnshire, and his wife Fanny White, whose father was a blacksmith. He was educated at the Alvington and North Coederington Church of England Elementary School followed by the King Edward VI Grammar School, Lo

Born in Surrey, on 19 November 1908, the second son of Edmund Henderson Hunt, MCh, FRCS (Eng) and Laura Mary, daughter of Sir James Buckingham. His elder brother, John, was elected a Fellow of the College *ad eundem* for services as a co-opted Member of Council and to medicine. Educated at Charte

Born on 27 November 1910 at Heilbron, Orange Free State, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and the Christian Brothers College, Pretoria before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1928. He qualified in 1934, served as a house surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital

Edmund O'Donnell Colley Grattan, the son of Colley Edmund George Grattan, a barrister, was born on 2 February 1910 at Bournemouth. His mother Winifred Katharine Wyndham Barnard was the daughter of Sir Herbert Barnard, a banker, whilst his father's side of the family was descended from Henry Grattan,

John Reginald St George Stead was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, on 20 June 1908. His father was William Yewdall Stead, a missionary priest, and his mother, Miriam Peterson, was the daughter of an architect. He was the sixth child in the family and the third boy. He was educated at St Andrew's P

Sydney Krantz had a good record at school at Prince Alfred College, and played for the school and afterwards for the University of Adelaide at cricket and football. He studied medicine in the University of Adelaide and graduated MB BS in 1927. After junior appointments in Adelaide he came to England

Thomas Williams was a consultant general surgeon at the West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born into a medical family in Canterbury, Kent, on 6 May 1910, the son of Moses Thomas Williams FRCS. Tom’s schooling was first at Sir Roger Harwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, and then Rug

Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City. Tim was educated at Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, and Marlborough