Chakkingal Puthanveetil V Menon was born on 30 June 1900 in the former Cochin State. After initial studies there he qualified MB BS from Madras Medical College in 1926. He was among the first recipients of the degree of Master of Surgery from Madras University in 1928. In 1935 he travelled abroad fo

William Bashall Gabriel was born on 2 October 1893 and spent his boyhood at Oulton Broad, Suffolk. There he learned to sail, a hobby which was a joy to him throughout his life. Educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and Epsom College, he qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in 1916 and after a house

Jan Roeland Frylinck qualified MB ChB from Cape Town in 1935. He passed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1949 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948. He was a surgeon in Sea Point, South Africa, and died in 1977 or 1978.

Benjamin John Fowler was born in 1917 in Peterborough where he attended the King's School before entering Guy's Hospital to qualify in 1941. He was called up for Army service, working as a general duties medical officer with some experience in surgery. While in North Africa he was created Chevalier

Robert Dow Forbes was born in 1879 and graduated MD at McGill University in 1903. He obtained the MRCS in 1906 and the FRCS in 1907. He returned to Stratford, Ontario, and in 1909 moved to Seattle where he practised from 1909 to 1950, and served as consultant at the University of Washington Medical

Eardley Samuel Allin was born on 26 August 1907, in Toronto, Ontario, the only son of Edgar William Allin, a surgeon, and of Rose Mary Allin (née Kember), a registered nurse. He was at primary and high schools in Edmonton before entering the University of Alberta where he took a BSc in 1927. He then

Francis Ward Allinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire on 12 July 1904 the son of Sidney Ward Allinson and his wife Frances Mary. He attended Aldenham Preparatory School and studied medicine at University College London, qualifying in 1928. He held early appointments at the Miller Hospital, Greenwic

William Arthur Altemeier was born in Cincinatti on 6 July 1910. During his student days at the medical school there he helped pay his way by working as a bacteriology technician, an experience which led to a lifelong interest in the application of microbiology to surgery. While a resident at the Hen

Gerald Victor Wright Anderson was born on 19 October 1893 at Porth Nolloth, Cape Colony, during the Boer War. His schooling was very erratic with short spells in Mombasa, England and France. He entered Bristol University for one year in 1909 and passed his first MB, but then rejoined his father as a

Born on 9 February 1924 in East London, South Africa, Israel was the son of Maxwell Angorn, a master dry cleaner and actor, and his wife, Helen (née Goldberg). He attended Selborne College in East London and then studied medicine at Witwatersrand University where he graduated MB ChB in 1951. He unde

Born on Christmas Day 1902, the son of Henry Thomas Blake and Maud MacIntyre, Henry Elliot Blake was educated at Dean Close, Cheltenham, Queen's College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, London. His father was a member of the Institute of Water Engineers and a County Councillor and Justice of th

Colac lost a great champion of rural health care when Mathew Green died in July 2012. His surgical work along with an active obstetrics practice was invaluable to health services in Colac from 1963 until his retirement in 1999. Mathew was born in St. Kilda in 1931 and spent his early years in