Born on 27 September 1858 at Little Chalfield, Wilts, the eldest son and first child of Walter Spencer, farmer, and his wife Mary Hulbert, of Lenton, Wilts. Educated at Weymouth College, he entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1881 and soon made his name. He won the junior scho

Born on 22 November 1885 at Leicester, the son of Samuel Bilson Noon, solicitor, he was educated at Blair Lodge, Stirling, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon to Sir Holburt Waring and Sir Charles Gordon-Watson, and as chief assistant in the gynaecology department unde

Born at Ashfield, New South Wales on 6 February 1886 son of Sir David Storey MLC, he was educated at Randwick, Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney. In 1910-11 he was resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and in 1911 medical registrar for six months followed f

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

Charles D'Oyly Grange was born at Moffat, Scotland, in 1887. His father was an Edinburgh graduate in medicine and a general practitioner, first at Moffat and later for many years at Harrogate during the summer and at Bournemouth during the winter. Grange's early professional training was at the L

Frederick Curtis was born in 1873, the son of Albert Curtis MRCS 1857, a general practitioner at Staines, Middlesex, and grandson of Frederick Curtis MRCS 1832, who had practised there previously. He was brought up a Quaker and educated at Bootham, York. His family had a long tradition in medicine f

George Bell was born at Shelford, Victoria, on 10 July 1882. He was the eldest of the large family of Lewis and Annie Bell (née Armstrong), who were among the early pioneering pastoralists of south-western New South Wales. From Scots College, Sydney where he was dux and captain, as well as playing c

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

Born on 17 July 1873 in Victoria, Australia, the second son of William Lee a farmer, and his wife née Goss, he was educated at Grenville College, Ballarat, and Queen's College, Melbourne, qualifying from Melbourne University in 1897. He practised at Melbourne till the outbreak of war in 1914, and be

Born on 12 July 1874, for his medical education he went to Guy's Hospital, and, after qualifying in 1897, he entered the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1898 obtaining a gold medal in military medicine at Netley. Promoted Captain on 28 January 1901, he was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, first

Born on 26 January 1889 son of Edward Ingram Taylor and Margaret Boole, he was educated at University College School, University College and University College Hospital, where he qualified in November 1911 with the Conjoint Diploma, following this up with the qualifying degrees of London University

Lennox Ross Broster was born in South Africa in 1889, and received his early education at St Andrew's College and the Rhodes University College (now Rhodes University), Grahamstown, Cape Province. Elected to a Rhodes Scholarship in 1909, he entered Trinity College, Oxford, to study medicine, and fro