Born at sea when his parents were on the way to India on 23 June 1853, the eldest of the nine children of Dr Mulroney, apothecary and chirurgeon attached Bombay Government for military duty, and Elizabeth Edwardes, his wife. He was educated in Bombay and graduated from the University of Malta. He se

Stanley Miles was born on 14 August 1911 in Sheffield the son of Thomas Currier Miles, a company director and his wife Florence Edna, née Law. He went to school at King Edward VII School before entering Sheffield University, where he qualified in 1936. After house appointments in Sheffield he joined

The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born at Poona in India on 5 September 1900 son of Denis Collins (afterwards Major-General) RAMC, he was educated at Stoneyhurst College, Pembroke College Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School, whence he qualif

Son of Inspector-General W H Sloggett, RN, of Tremabyn, Paignton, South Devon, was born at Stoke Damarel in that county on Nov 24th, 1857, his mother being Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cornish-Crossing, JP, of Stoke Damarel. He was educated at King's College, London, and entered the Army as Surgeon

Born in Meerut, India, on 25 April 1865, son of Surgeon Jesse Griggs Pilcher, IMS, afterwards Deputy Surgeon-General and FRCS. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1890. Pilche

Born 12 June 1860 at Valence, France, the second son and second child of William Rew Pratt, FRCS, and Maria Louisa Harvey, his wife. Mrs Pratt claimed descent from the family of which William Harvey was an illustrious member. Pratt was educated privately at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and at Westminst

Born in 1822 and baptized on April 5th of that year; son of Joseph Smith, of Kempsey, Worcestershire. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on March 19th, 1845, being promoted Surgeon on February 21st, 1859; Surgeon Major on March 19th, 1865; and Deputy Inspector-General when in charge of t

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

Austin Bernard Dempsey was born at West Ham on 17 October 1911. He was educated at Stonyhurst, the London Hospital and St Thomas's Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1935. He was commissioned into the RAMC in October 1935 and appointed to a permanent commission in October 1941. Most of his servi

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Cyril May, formerly medical director-general of the Royal Navy, was born in London on 12 June, 1897, the only child of Robert and Clara May. His father practised as a dental surgeon. After education at South Belgravia Preparatory School and Westminster School he served in th

John Murray Weddell was born in 1884 at Upper Holloway, Middlesex, the son of Dr W H Weddell. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Arts in 1906. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1909. He was then commissioned in the RAMC and serve

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