Alfred Henry (Harry) Swithinbank graduated with honours from Liverpool University in 1943 and after resident appointments, he took the DA in 1945 and served in the Far East as an anaesthetic specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Major. He was a senior registrar at Stanley

After qualifying MB BS with honours at Adelaide University in 1946 and a house appointment there, McCann served as a medical officer with the Australian forces in Japan in 1947-8. Coming to Britain in 1949 he held several junior posts before taking his Fellowship in 1951, and then was a registrar at

Rothwell Alan Hill was born in 1920 and qualified in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1942. He was appointed resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital and then joined the Royal Australasian Air Force in 1943 as a medical officer. After the war he returned to St Vincent's Hospital i

William Melvin was born on 20 November 1920 in Kingston, Ontario, the son of Dr George Spencer Melvin, a physiologist and dean of medicine at Queen's University in Kingston, and Isabella, née Stewart, a nurse. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Queen's University Medical School in Kingst

Wilmot John Tresize was born on 10 October 1915 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the son of Alfred Joseph Tresize, a carpenter, and his wife Eileen Gladys Cole, née King. He was educated at West Christchurch District High School, which he represented in the First XI at cricket. He matriculated at 15 an

Eric Murray studied medicine in Aberdeen, qualifying in 1944. After junior posts, he did his National Service, and afterwards worked as a registrar on rotation at Luton and Dunstable, the Central Middlesex and the Royal Free Hospitals. In 1959, he was appointed consultant surgeon initially at Tilbur

Ian Howard Ogilvy was resident junior medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1943 and progressed to senior medical officer and then to assistant surgeon in 1952. He was honorary surgeon to the Austin Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital from 1952 to 1957, assistant surgeon at

Arnold Katz was born on 10 September 1920 in the town of Benoni in the East Rand, the eldest son of Abe and Anne Katz. His parents were expatriate Lithuanian Jews, and his father was a businessman in the import and export trade, who later moved to Cape Town. Both his parents died at an early age and

John (Jack) Trengove Jones was born in Paarl, South Africa, on 20 February 1918, and was educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School and the University of Cape Town. He obtained his MB ChB at the beginning of the second world war, and later served with the South African Medical Corps in Egypt, at Sprin

Harry Annamunthodo was born on 26 April 1920 in British Guiana, now Guyana. He was proud to claim as an ancestor an Indian Sepoy transported after the Mutiny. He was educated at Queen's College, Georgetown, before entering the London Hospital Medical College in 1941, at that time evacuated to Cambri

John Gerald Callanan was born in Ennis, County Clare, on 21 June 1920, the son of John Callanan, a British Government Official, and his wife, Margaret. He spent his early years in England, returning for schooling to Mount Mellory where he attended the veterinary college for a while before transferri

Tara Chandra was principal of the Kanpur Medical College, India. He was born on 25 August 1925, in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh state, and received his medical education at KG Medical College, Lucknow, gaining 16 medals and prizes, and coming first in the final MB BS. After junior posts in Lucknow,