Born on 9 January 1882 at the Cape of Good Hope, one of the sons of a naval surgeon who later became Director-General of the Navy Medical Service as Sir Henry Norbury KCB, he was educated at St Paul's and Merchant Taylors' Schools and St Thomas's Medical School which he entered in 1899. He had a dis

Henry Clarence Wardleworth Nuttall was born on 22 June 1886 and qualified at Liverpool University with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910. After junior hospital appointments in Liverpool he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in surgical pathology, then Holt Fellow in pathology, and later Robert Gee Fellow in anat

Educated at Edinburgh University, St Bartholomew's, the London and the Middlesex Hospitals, he was house surgeon at Burton-on-Trent Infirmary. Ussher emigrated to Timaru, New Zealand, where he practised at 48 Sefton Street and became senior surgeon to the Hospital. He died there on 14 February 1964

Born in New Zealand he was educated at Otago Medical School. After graduate study at Sheffield he took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1927, and returned to New Zealand to practise at Invercargill where he became surgeon to the Southland Hospital. During the second world war he came to England, took the

Edward Thomas Campbell Milligan was born on 23 June 1886 at Waterloo, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, where his father mined gold. When the gold vein ran out the family moved to Stanwell, near Melbourne. They came of Methodist stock and this showed its effects throughout Milligan's life, in his

Keith Mitchell Keitley Duff qualified at Guy's Hospital, London, and practised in England, in Kenya and in the Transvaal, South Africa. He died on 28 July 1980 at Andover in Hampshire, England aged 87 years. He was survived by his sons Robin and John. John Keitley Duff is also FRCS and specialises i

Joya Chowdhury was living in Calcutta at the time of her death in the late 1970s.

Ramkrishna Chaudhuri qualified MB BS in Calcutta in 1956. He passed the FRCS in 1965 and worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, before returning to Calcutta where he died on 7 July 1977.

Little is known of Abani Mohan Chaudhuri except that he served as a Colonel in the IMS and was survived by his wife when he died on 19 May 1978.

Walter Stanley Chapman studied medicine at University College Hospital, qualified MB BS in 1926 and was awarded an MD in 1932. He was appointed resident surgical officer to Bolingbroke Hospital and surgeon to the Worthing Hospital Group. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. During the s

Geraldine Mary Barry was born on 4 October at Wakes Colne, Essex, the daughter of the Reverend Walter and Anna Barry. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and was originally destined to read mathematics at Cambridge, but this was changed by the visit of Professor Winifred Cullis (Prof

John Cridlan Barrett was born on 10 August 1897 in Leamington Spa where his father was a pharmaceutical chemist. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School from where he obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. In the first world war he served as a Lieutenant in the 5th Battal