Francis Wilfred Peter Dixon was born in Australia and educated at Newman College and Melbourne University where he graduated in 1930. He joined the Royal Air Force Medical Service in the same year. After serving abroad in Iraq and Aden as medical officer to 33 and 101 Squadrons he was posted to Abin

Nothing is known of the career of Lieutenant-General Mohammed Abdul Majid who became a Fellow of the College in 1952. He died in Poona on 14 July 1990 survived by his wife Dr J D Majid.

Robert Alexander Stephen was born in Elgin, Morayshire, on 20 June 1907, the son of James Alexander Stephen, MB, ChB, DPH a general practitioner who later became the first medical officer of health for mother and child welfare in Aberdeen. He was educated at East End School in Elgin and Aberdeen Gra

Colonel Derrick Orry Hunt Messent was a surgeon in the RAMC. He was born on 19 June 1922. He studied medicine at Sydney University, qualified in 1946 and gained his FRCS in 1964. He wrote a joint paper on spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus (‘Spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus with unusual

Born on 13 May 1870 at Walton Priory, Liverpool, the ninth child and third son of William Wilson, shipping merchant, and Kate Howard Thompson, his wife. He was educated at Liverpool College, in the training-ship *Conway*, and at the Liverpool Medical School. Wilson was a fine athlete and a good foot

Born on 14 May 1889 he received his medical education in Liverpool and at the London Hospital. On joining the IMS as a Lieutenant on 26 July 1913, he obtained the first Montefiore Prize and Medal in Military Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College in London in 1913. He served as regimental medi

Born at Marshalls, Ware, Hertford on 4 April 1874, he was educated at Westminster School and University College, London. On the outbreak of the South African war soon after he had qualified, he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper and was attached to the newly formed South African Constabulary.

Born at Kilkeel, Co Down he received his medical education at Trinity College and the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, the London Hospital, Guy's Hospital and Vienna. Entering the regular Naval Medical Service he reached the rank of Surgeon-Captain and acted as a surgeon at various times at RN Hospitals a

Mohammed Sharif was a military doctor in the Pakistan, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Africa and ultimately director of UNRWA (the United National Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) operations on the West Bank. He was born on 7 January 1912 in Nab

Neil Cantlie was born on 11 December 1892 in Hong Kong, the youngest son of the late Sir James Cantlie, FRCS, and educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Aberdeen University, where he graduated in medicine with honours in 1914. He was a member of the university OTC and after qualifying jo

Born on 24 May 1871, at Kandy, Ceylon, John Goodwin was the eldest son of Surgeon-Major John Goodwin, Army Medical Staff, and Mario Agnes Power, and was educated at Newton College, Devon and at St Mary's Hospital, London where he qualified in 1892. The following year he was commissioned in the Army

Born on May 29th, 1814. He entered the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on July 29th, 1845, was promoted to Surgeon on May 2nd, 1862, and to Surgeon Major on July 29th, 1865. He saw active service in the Second Sikh or Punjab War of 1848-1849, being present at the siege and capture of Multan, for wh