Born in Vienna on 22 June he studied at Prague and Vienna Universities, emigrated to the United States in 1907 and became an American citizen in 1914. He worked with John Ridlon at St Luke's Hospital, Chicago 1907-10 and was then appointed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Drake University, Des Mo

Franklin Adin (Sam) Simmonds was born in 1911 and educated at Sherborne where he captained the school team at cricket and rugby. He then went to Pembroke College, Cambridge, for pre-clinical studies, where he acquired a golf blue before going to St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1935. After early

George Leonard Shatwell was born in Litherland, a northern suburb of Liverpool, on 2 October 1913 and after early education in a local school left at the age of fourteen to work for a local pharmaceutical company. He acquired a strong ambition to study medicine and at the age of twenty-two was accep

Born in 1905 he was educated in Melbourne and matriculated in 1921 with four first-class honours. He graduated in Melbourne with honours in all subjects. At the time of his death he was chief orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Melb

Born on 8 March 1906 in Bristol, where he spent practically the whole of his life, he was educated, and received his medical training. After qualifying in 1929 with the degrees of London University he left Bristol for a period of postgraduate training in Liverpool and Oxford, but, having been admitt

Herbert Alfred Brittain, son of J W Brittain of Dublin, was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Dublin where he graduated in 1926. He then held surgical appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Leicester Royal Infirmary, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. In 1931 he ob

Kenneth Leonard Cleminson was an orthopaedic surgeon in Queensland, Australia. He was born on 23 May 1924 in London, the son of Leonard James Cleminson, a master builder, and Ada Aderline Cleminson née Soar, the daughter of a violinist. He was educated at Water Lane Boys' School in West Ham and Borl

Cecil Joseph Digan Langton was born on 17 March 1907, and educated at St Aloysius College, Sydney. He graduated MB BS from Sydney University in 1933, and then became a resident medical officer at Lewisham Hospital, Sydney, of which he was Medical Superintendent from 1934-5. In 1936 he came to Englan

Patrick was born on the 29th April 1932 in Oxford England, the eldest son to parents William and Florence, brother to siblings Elizabeth and Richard. Patrick was an excellent scholar and he enthusiastically fulfilled his parents' wishes to study medicine, graduating from the Westminster Medical Scho

Born at Salem, Massachusetts on 6 July 1873, son of John Osgood he graduated MD at the Harvard Medical School in 1899, and began to practise as an orthopaedic surgeon in Boston. Not long afterwards, in 1903, he published a paper on lesions of the tibial tubercle occurring during adolescence, this be

Frank Wild Holdsworth was born in Bradford on 22 September 1904, and was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge, proceeding to St George's Hospital in 1926. He became a Fellow of the College in 1930, and obtained the Cambridge degrees of MB BCh in 1934 and MCh in 1935.

Henry George Lowe was born on 13 September 1923 and was educated at Bolton School and the University of Manchester where he obtained the MB BCh degree in 1947. After resident appointments he became a demonstrator of anatomy as a preliminary to his surgical training, and he took the Fellowship in 195