Alfred Henry (Harry) Swithinbank graduated with honours from Liverpool University in 1943 and after resident appointments, he took the DA in 1945 and served in the Far East as an anaesthetic specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, attaining the rank of Major. He was a senior registrar at Stanley

Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Richard Nash was the son of Gerald and Margaret Nash. He was educated at University College Dublin, and came to England to specialise in surgery, doing a number of registrar jobs in London before taking the FRCS in 1951. He went to Canada in 1952, practising in Fort Garry

Murray was educated at Anderson College, Glasgow, and qualified with the licences of the Edinburgh Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1945. He subsequently gained the College's Fellowship in 1951 and became a Member and Fellow of the Royal

Arthur Orfleur Parker graduated in medicine in the University of Manitoba in 1920, and was a house surgeon at the Winnipeg General Hospital. He specialized in orthopaedic surgery, and when he came to England he held the post of assistant surgeon at the Warwickshire Orthopaedic Hospital, Holeshill; r

Ian Howard Ogilvy was resident junior medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1943 and progressed to senior medical officer and then to assistant surgeon in 1952. He was honorary surgeon to the Austin Hospital and the Footscray and District Hospital from 1952 to 1957, assistant surgeon at

'Mannie' Lunz was born in Benoni on 4 May 1924. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, qualifying in 1946. After junior posts at Johannesburg General Hospital he went to England to study orthopaedics under Professor Brian Mc

Eric Murray studied medicine in Aberdeen, qualifying in 1944. After junior posts, he did his National Service, and afterwards worked as a registrar on rotation at Luton and Dunstable, the Central Middlesex and the Royal Free Hospitals. In 1959, he was appointed consultant surgeon initially at Tilbur

Paul Vincent Wadsworth was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Brighton and Haywards Heath hospitals and, for many years, also principal laryngologist to Glyndebourne Opera. He was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, on 2 November 1919, the son of Joseph Harold Wadsworth, a school master, and

Granville Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon at Lancaster, Kendal and Morecambe Hospitals. Born in 1922, he was educated at Bedford Grammar School and Uppingham, where he was house captain. He read medicine at Oxford and completed house jobs at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He did his National Service

Born on 30 May 1921 Alvarez was educated in France and Spain, and then at Solihull School and Birmingham University, graduating there in 1945. After three years postgraduate training, especially in thoracovascular surgery, first at St Chad's Hospital, Birmingham, and later in the United States at Bo

Gerson Katz was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born in Johannesburg and studied medicine at Witwatersrand University. After qualifying he completed junior posts in Durban at King Edward VIII Hospital. He then went to the UK, to specialise in surgery. He was a house

Carl Georgeff was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 14 December 1913. His father, Michael, was a farmer, and his mother's name was Anna Kamburova. He attended Perth Boy's School, Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia, before studying medicine at the University of Melbourne a