Born in Bathurst in 1874 son of W Burton Wade, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney. Qualifying in 1896, he commenced a lifelong association with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, starting as resident medical officer in 1896, then senior resident medical officer in 1

Born 1870 at St Arnaud, Mornington peninsula, Victoria, Australia, son of the Rev Ralph Brown, he was educated at Toorak College and at Queen's College, Melbourne University. He won several scholarships, graduating in medicine and surgery in 1892 with the Beaney scholarship and the first place in su

Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 24 August 1881, son of Casement Aickin, merchant, and Elizabeth Mitchell Garde his wife. Aickin came of a medical family on both sides, for his mother was the daughter of Thomas Garde, MD and his grandfather Thomas Leland Aickin was MD of Trinity College, Dublin and FR

Phillip Foster was born in April 1885 and first lived in Timaru. He was educated in Hawera and later went to the Otago Boys' School. His medical education took place at Otago University where he qualified in 1909. Foster began his medical career at Christchurch Hospital, an association which was to

Born on 9 August 1860 at Hackney in London, the sixth son and seventh child of Robert Voss, solicitor, who came of a Welsh family settled for many centuries in Glamorganshire, and Charlotte Phillips Smith, his wife. He was educated at Stafford College, Forest Hill, and at the London Hospital, where

Born on 19 August 1876 in Birmingham, son of John McGavin, he was educated at King Edward's High School and the University of Birmingham. He trained at the London Hospital, winning a gold medal and university scholarship. During the South African war he served as a civilian surgeon with the army, im

Born on 24 March 1865 at Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Alfred A Barnett, JP. He was educated at Wellington State School and College, and at Otago University, Dunedin. He made his medical studies at Edinburgh where he graduated, and at the Middlesex Hospital where he served as house surgeon. Af

Francis Gordon Bell was born at Marlborough, New Zealand, in 1887, and was educated at Marlborough High School, where he became captain of rugby and vice-captain of the cricket team. He came to Britain in 1905 and entered Edinburgh University, where he was awarded the Vans Dunlop Scholarship in anat

Born in 1876 in Oldham, Lancashire, David Wylie was educated at Manchester Grammar School and University, winning the surgical clinical prize in 1897 and qualifying in 1898 with first class honours. After two years in resident posts at the Royal Infirmary he served as a civil surgeon in the Boer war

Born 11 June 1870 at Paringa sheep station, Murray River, South Australia, son of James Francis Cudmore and Margaret Bridge, his wife. He was educated at St Peter's College, Whinham, and Adelaide University, where he qualified in 1894. Coming to England he worked at the London Hospital under Sir Fre

Born on 18 December 1859 at Campton, near Haddington, East Lothian, he was brought up under a strictly religious discipline with his brothers and sisters by his grandmother until her death. He was educated by a typical Scots dominie at the school in Haddington from which he proceeded to Edinburgh Ac

Born 9 June 1891, son of Walter C Hailes of Moonee Ponds, a northern suburb of Melbourne. He was educated at the Essendon Grammar School, at the Scotch College, then in its old blue-stone buildings in East Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne, where he won scholarships and prizes and was a