Benjamin Weston Wells was born in Wimbledon, London, on 17 February 1918, the son of Sir William Henry Wells and his wife Dorothy, née Horne. Sir Thomas Spencer Wells (qv *Lives of the Fellows* Vol 2) was an ancestor of his. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and St Thomas's Hospital Medical Schoo

Clarence Stanley Day was born in Toronto on 4 March 1908, the second child and first son of Amy Lillian, nee Gilroy, and Walter Arthur Day. He attended Withrow Public School, Humber Collegiate and Riverdale Collegiate. He studied medicine at the University of Toronto and became chief surgical reside

John Shipman was a consultant surgeon at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. He was born in London on 20 September 1917. His father, Henry, was in business, his mother was Rachel née Harwich. He studied medicine at University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1941 and after junior posts joined t

Robert Fuller was born in Acton, London, on 4 January 1916. His father, Charles, was a company director. His mother was Mildred Kate née Lambert, a housewife. Robert was educated at St Paul's from 1928 to 1934, and then went on to St Mary's Hospital to study medicine. After qualifying in 1939, with

Bob Horton was a consultant surgeon at the United Bristol Hospitals. He was born in south London on 5 July 1917, the son of Arthur John Budd Horton, a schoolteacher, and Isabel Horton née Cotton, the daughter of a master mariner. He was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, and studied medici

Murray Pheils was professor of surgery at the University of Sydney. He was born in Birmingham on 2 December 1917, the younger of the two sons of Elmer Theodore Pheils, an osteopath, and Lilian Mary née Cole. His father Elmer was a colourful character: he was born in Toledo, Ohio, and trained as an o

Roger Miles was born in Liverpool on 1 May 1915, the third child of Edwin Griffith Miles, a Presbyterian minister and Annie Miles, née Jones. Most of his childhood was spent in Felixstowe on the Suffolk coast where he developed his lifelong love of sailing and the sea. He was educated at Bradfield C

John Reginald Thompson was born on 13 March 1917 in Paignton, Devon, the son of John Thompson FRCS, GP surgeon of Torquay and Paignton and Elsie, née Royle. His mother was one of the first women to qualify as a doctor when she passed the MD in Manchester in 1909. He was educated at Sherborne School

Maitreyee Chaudhuri was born on 19 May 1910 and died on 6 June 2010, at the age of 100. She gained her FRCS in 1947.

Paul Savage was a consultant general surgeon at the Whittington Hospital, London. He was born, with his twin sister, on 28 January 1916 in Cambridge, the second son of Sir Edward Graham Savage, the chief education officer of the London County Council, and May Savage née Thwaites, who was a nurse at

The son of Lt-Col A Macgregor Rose DSO, RAMC of Aberdeen, Ian Rose was born on 3 December 1912. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he graduated in 1937. After qualification he held several resident posts at Bart's and took his MA degree in 1938

Archibald Edmund Carter was a consultant surgeon at Ealing Hospital, London. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1945 with honours in surgery. He gained his FRCS in 1947. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a surgical registrar at the Royal Northern H