Born at Warrenport, Co Down, the son of Isaac Corkey and a nephew of Sir William Whitla, Professor of Medicine at Belfast. He was educated at the University of Dublin, where he won a medical scholarship at Trinity College in 1913. He served with distinction during the Great War, winning the Military

Educated at the University of Edinburgh and at the London Hospital. He was House Physician and then House Surgeon at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, and later House Surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Ear and Throat Hospital. During the European War he served with distinction, being awarded the Mil

Downie, who was sometimes referred to by colleagues by his nickname 'Nick', received his medical education at Birmingham University. During the second world war he served in the RAMC with the rank of lieutenant colonel and was awarded the DSO, OBE and MC. He was surgical registrar at Queen Elizabeth

Frederick Neil Street was born in Sydney on 19 June 1916. He was educated at Sydney Boys' High School and Sydney University, where he graduated with second class honours. He then did a year as resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, before joining the RAAMC in 1940. He

Peter Hugh Tasker was a general surgeon in Ontario, Canada. He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on 16 September 1916. His mother’s maiden name was Thomas. He qualified in 1940. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and, while attached to No 6 Commando, was awarded the Military Cross. His cita

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

No information is available about Leo Charles McCarthy beyond that contained in issues of the *New Zealand Medical Register*. He qualified MB, ChB New Zealand in 1939, obtained the Fellowship of the College in 1948 and that of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1951, and that at some time

Ernest Thom McCartney was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, the son of Robert McCartney, a chemist, and his wife, Kathleen, née Thom. He was educated at Coleraine Institute and Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied medicine. He went on to training posts at Victoria Central Hospital, Wallasey,

Gerald Thomas Mullally was born on 31 October 1887 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, whither his father, William Mullally, MD, who had been in family practice in Tipperary, had emigrated, and where he died of acute appendicitis with peritonitis when young, Gerald being 7 years old at that time. H

Ranald Montague Handfield-Jones was born in Wandsworth, London, on 12 May 1892. His father was a doctor and his mother the daughter of a doctor. His grandfather was MD FRCS, FRS and an uncle was MD FRCP. He was educated at Weymouth Grammar School and Epsom College. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medi

John Whigham was born in Brook Street, London, and educated at Westminster City School, where he won the gold medal as the best pupil of his year and a scholarship to St Mary's Hospital. He qualified in 1913 at the age of 21. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment at the outbreak of the first wor

Born on 24 December 1906 in Tyrwaun, Ystalyfera, Swansea, David Lincoln Lewis was the son of William James Lewis, a medical practitioner, and Constance Mary Adeney, whose father owned Swaine and Adeney, the shop in Piccadilly. His younger brother, Ronald Swaine Lewis (qv this vol) was also FRCS. He