John Leach Wakelin trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he became senior registrar in the ENT department. In 1944 he is recorded as serving in the RAMC as a lieutenant. In the 1971 *Medical Directory*, he is listed as being an honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Bulawayo Government Ho

James Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon in Bristol. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1940. He gained his FRCS in 1948 and his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1950. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a house surgeon at the Royal National Thr

William Mervyn Owen was a consultant ENT surgeon who worked in Liverpool. He was brought up in Caernarfon, Wales, and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937 and the MB BS in 1938. During the Second World War he served in the RAMC and in

Betsy Brown was a consultant ENT surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. She was born on 15 February 1923 in Glasgow, the second daughter of Robert and Isabella Brown. Her father was a master builder, her mother a legal secretary until she married. Together with her sister and brother, Betsy attended H

Born on August 12, 1899 at Chequerbent, Bolton, he went to Bolton School and on leaving in 1917 he joined the army being accepted for service in the Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps. He became a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and on demobilization in 1919 he entered Manchester Univer

William Daggett, the only son of a Yorkshire general practitioner, was born at Boroughbridge on 2 October, 1900. From a preparatory school at Marston Moor he went as an exhibitioner to Sedberg School and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After securing a first class Natural Science Trip

Capps was born in the Naval Hospital, Gibralter, on 17 May 1898, the only son of Fleet-Surgeon Frederick A Capps, who lost his life in action at the Battle of Jutland (1916). With this family background he was from an early age destined for a career in the Royal Navy, and accordingly entered the Roy

Cecil Patrick Malley was surgeon to the Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, surgeon to the ENT Department of the St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children in Plaistow and consultant in aural surgery at Bushey Heath Hospital. He retired to Malaga and died there on 21 June 1981.

Solomon Lewis Citron was born in London on 5 November 1920 the son of Alik Citron, a tailor, and was educated at Regent Street Polytechnic before entering University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1943 and after house appointments at the medical unit of Hammersmith Hospital and the

Gilbert Haywood Howells was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 August 1897. He was the second son of Henry Haywood Howells, a solicitor. After Newport High School he attended University College, Cardiff, and St Thomas's Hospital. He became surgeon at St George's Hospital, the National Hospital, M

Robert Louttit Flett qualified MB ChB from the Otago Medical School in 1925, where he was also demonstrator in anatomy. As an anatomist he won the Scott Memorial Medal in applied anatomy and was a member of the Anatomical Society. After obtaining his Fellowship he spent the rest of his career and

John Douglas McLaggan was born on Deeside on 18 June 1893, and went to Aberdeen University for his medical studies which were interrupted by the first world war in which he served as a sergeant in the Gordon Highlanders. On demobilization he returned to Aberdeen and was awarded the physiology medal