James Rupert Magarey was born in Adelaide on 21 February 1914, the son of Elsie Magarey, née Cowell, and Dr R E Magarey who was honorary gynaecologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and was President of the South Australia Branch of the British Medical Association from 1937 to 1938. His early educat

Arthur (Pat) Murphy was born in Liverpool on 30 November 1919, and received his higher education at Liverpool University. He qualified MB, ChB at Liverpool in 1942 and following junior posts at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, he was appointed registrar and subsequently senior registrar at the David Lewi

Marjorie Agnes Powys was born on 25 March 1911 and was educated at the Mount, Leamington Spa, and St Margaret's, Bushey. Her medical training was at the London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital qualifying in 1935. After early house appointments she was resident surgical office

Stephen de Carteret Barclay was born on 26 August 1918 in New Zealand. He qualified there and came to England after the war to specialise in surgery. He returned to New Zealand to practice in Leamington, Cambridge, where he is thought to have died sometime in 2002.

Frederick Gabel was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada on 21 September 1916, the son of John Gabel, the owner of a grocer's shop, and his wife Annie Broskie. After obtaining a BA from the University of Saskatchewan where he played hockey for the University, he went on to the University of Manitob

Jan Roeland Frylinck qualified MB ChB from Cape Town in 1935. He passed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1949 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948. He was a surgeon in Sea Point, South Africa, and died in 1977 or 1978.

Thomas Kelly was born on 27 March 1912 at Burra in South Australia, the son of a farmer and a farmer's daughter, and was educated at a convent school and the Christian Brothers College at Rostrevor. He went to medical school in Adelaide where he obtained the Duncan Hughes and Lady Duncan Scholarship

James Kennedy Watt, the son of a general practitioner, was born close to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 30 August 1921. After education at the High School of Glasgow he went to Glasgow University where he had a distinguished undergraduate career, gaining the James Hunter Medal in pathology and gradu

Denis Martin Morrissey was born in Newcastle, County Tipperary, Ireland, on 13 July 1914, the second son of Michael Joseph Morrissey, a farmer. His early education was at the High School, Clonmel, County Tipperary, before entering University College, Dublin, for medical studies, which included a pos

Malcolm Roberts Stanley qualified MB, BS in Sydney in 1944 and was appointed junior resident medical officer to the Sydney Hospital and became surgical registrar in 1945. During the second world war he was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve. He became a Fellow of the College i

Kenneth McKeown was born on 31 October 1912 in Belfast. His father, Robert James McKeown, was a linen manufacturer and his mother was Sarah, née Owen. He received his medical training at the Royal Academical Institute in Belfast, and at Queen's University, where he achieved distinctions in anatomy a

Thomson was born on 14 July 1919 in Brisbane, the son of Frederick Thorpe Thomson, an insurance executive, and his wife Ann Margaret, née Evans. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College, before winning an open scholarship to the University of Queensland where he won the W N Robertson medal for firs