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,

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

Andrew Geoffrey Butters was born in Kempston, Bedfordshire on 5 April 1911, the third child of George Butters, a general practitioner. In early childhood he suffered from a gross speech defect and also from congenital myopia. His disabilities were so severe that at the age of eight he was unable to

Satyanarayana Synkavelly came to England from India. In 1934 he passed the Conjoint Examination, and the Fellowship in the same year. He returned to West Godavari in Southern India where he practiced until his death. He died about 1971.

Professor Ibrahim Magdi was working at the As Salam Hospital in Giza, Egypt when he died on 3 March 1981.

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

Francis Sansome Mitchell-Heggs, the fourth child and third son of Francis Raymond Mitchell Heggs, a medical practitioner, and of Maud (née Sansome) whose father had been surgeon to West Bromwich Hospital, was born at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 16 August 1911. After education at Nottingham High Schoo

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

Charles Bliss qualified in England but emigrated to New Zealand, where he worked in Whangaparaoa. At one time he served in the Indian Army. His diaries, notes and papers were given to the National Library of New Zealand. He died on 18 January 1997, survived by his three sons, Paul, Anthony and Simon

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

'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