Ruby Grace Sharp was born in Cape Town in 1906, the third daughter of Dr Robert Sharp, a surgeon in Cape Town at that time, and was educated at Wynberg Girls' High School. She was a talented and clever girl and legend has it that she required a wheelbarrow to take home her trophies on prize-giving d

Born in 1906 Leslie Westfield Gleadell was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, before going on with a scholarship to Melbourne University. As a youth he suffered from a disease of the hip joint, wrongly diagnosed as tuberculosis, and the prescribed long immobilisation left him with irreversible j

Bert Wilfred Buttsworth was born in 1904. He was particularly interested in orthopaedics, obstetrics and gynaecology. In the early 1950's he was instrumental in convincing the Federal Government that there should be a full medical course at the University of Australia. He was President of the Wester