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

Born at Aberdeen, 16 May 1886, eldest son of George Anderson, a landed proprietor and farmer, and his wife, *née* Morison. He was educated at Fordyce Academy, Banffshire, and at Aberdeen University, which he entered in 1904, and won gold medals both in medicine and surgery at his graduation in 1909.

Born at Goodnestone Parsonage, Wingham, Kent on 20 October 1857, the second son of the Rev Herbert James, Rector of Livermere, Suffolk, and his wife Mary Emily, daughter of Admiral Joshua Sydney Horton. His elder brother, Sydney James, was head master of Malvern College and Archdeacon of Dudley and

Educated at Edinburgh University he qualified in 1905, and took the English Conjoint diplomas in 1908. He went then to New Zealand, but returned and took the Fellowship at the end of 1910. He practised in South London, and joined the RAMC in August 1914 when war broke out. He was promoted captain on

Born at Kirriemuir, Angus, on 5 November 1882, the third child and second son of David Wilkie, manufacturer, and Margaret Forrest Mill, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Royal Infirmary, and University, where he gained the gold medal at the ChM examination in 1909. At the Royal Infirma

Born 14 September 1862, the fourth child and third son of D Brown, of Harrow Park, and his wife Anna Maria Charlotte Wright. He was educated at Harrow and at University College Hospital, where he was Filliter exhibitioner and Atchison scholar. He was a contemporary and life-long friend of John Rose

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

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

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

Born at Simla, 6 June 1879, son of Colonel J Goldie. He was educated at Charterhouse 1892-96 and then passed into Sandhurst, as it was intended that he should enter the army. Disqualified on account of defective vision, he went to St Mary's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and house physici

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