John Bastow was born in India; his father, a civil engineer, was an Australian and his mother was an Englishwoman from Devonshire. His early days were spent in Australia; he was educated at Hutchings School, Hobart, Tasmania, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he studied medicine.

Leon Gillis was born 4 September 1908, and had his schooling and undergraduate medical education in South Africa, obtaining the degrees of bachelor of medicine and of surgery at Witwatersrand University in 1935. He then came to England for postgraduate education and after study at Liverpool, in 1937

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

Arthur Liddon Webb was educated at the University of Adelaide where he graduated MB, BS in 1922. He came to England and obtained the FRCS in 1929. He specialized in orthopaedics, and held the appointments of consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St George's Hospital and the Mater Misericordia Hospital i

Reginald Watson-Jones was born on 4 March 1902 and received his medical education at Liverpool University, where after taking the BSc with first class honours in 1922 he qualified in medicine in 1924. He was a brilliant student and an excellent speaker, and he won most of the prizes in medicine at h

Born on 29 August 1911 in Bury, Lancashire, John Charnley was the son of Arthur Walker Charnley, pharmacist, and Lily, née Hodgson, a nurse, he was educated at Bury Grammar School and Manchester University. He was persuaded to read medicine rather than dentistry, his first choice, by L R Strangeways

Anthony Stuart Yarker Platten gained BCh in 1965 and MB Cambridge in 1966. He gained Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He was registrar at the accident unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon. A member of the British Medical Association, he was orthopaedic r

Derek Willey Purser was born near Heywood, Lancashire, on 14 June 1922, and was educated at Heywood Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1946. After house appointments he took the FRCS in 1951 and served for two years as an orthopaedic surgeon in the Army in Germany.

John Harrington Pusey was born on 19 January 1940 and was educated at Chesham Boy's Preparatory School, Bucks, and at Wycliffe College, Stone-house, Gloucestershire. For his medical education he came to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the MB

Born on 19 August 1875, the eldest of the three children of Samuel Daw and his wife, *née* Davy; he was educated privately. Daw qualified at the age of thirty from the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he then served as resident surgical officer. After serving as resident surgical officer and

Born on 26 September 1879, the youngest (fifth) child and only son of James Bankart, FRCS (1862) of Southernhay, Exeter, and Gertrude Moss, his wife. Hew as educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1901. He took his cl

The elder son of C B Barnett of Southampton, he was born in 1893 and was educated at Birmingham University, whence he proceeded to the Middlesex and University College Hospitals. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment as a combatant at the beginning of the war of 1914, before he had qualified, but w