Patrick ('Paddy') Collins was professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a consultant surgeon at Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, and later at Beaumont Hospital. Paddy was the eldest of five children born to Patrick Archibald 'Archie' Collins and Mary Ann (née Collins). B

Ronald (Ron) Hunter was born on 24 August 1922 in Nailsworth, South Australia. He was the son of Frederick Hunter, a tram operator and former accountant, and his wife Dulcie née Belcher. He had a brother Stewart who became a headmaster and three sisters; Betty, a microbiologist, Joy a nurse assistan

Robert Marshall Laird was born on 4 February 1919. He studied medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, qualifying MB, BCh, BAO in 1942 and working there as a demonstrator in physiology. He served as a flight lieutenant in the RAFVR. After house jobs at Preston Royal Infirmary, he passed the fellowshi

John Andrew McCredie, known as Jack, was professor of surgery at the University of Western Ontario. He was born on 8 September 1923 in Annahilt, County Down, Northern Ireland. His father, Andrew McCredie, was a draper; his mother was Agnes McCredie née McCandless. He was educated at the Royal Belfas

Peter Joseph Wilkinson Monks was a consultant general surgeon at Torbay Hospital, Devon. He was born on 3 March 1922 in Warrington, Cheshire. After attending John Lyon Grammar School in Harrow, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and qualified in 1944. During his pre-clinical

Walter Selwyn Georgeson (he was always known as ‘Brux’ to his colleagues) was born on 13/3/1918 in Brisbane and lived with his parents and sister in Clayfield. He was educated at the Brisbane Boys College where he showed his abilities by always being near the top of his class. He was a keen rower at

Herman Christian Nohl-Oser was a consultant surgeon at Harefield Hospital, where he specialised in pulmonary and oesophageal surgery, with a special interest in paediatric surgery. He was born Herman Christian Nohl (in the 1960s he add the ‘Oser’) in Jena, Germany, in April 1916, the son of Herman N

Selvam Panchalingam was a Sri Lankan surgeon. She was born in 1919 and qualified FRCS in 1951. She lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A relative notified the Royal College of Surgeons of her death.

Jack Lindsay Swann was a general surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Caulfield, Melbourne, on 17 November 1921, the only child of Roy Barker and Irene May Swann née Matchett. His early education was at Caulfield Grammar School and his final four years of school were at Scotch College in

Daniel Jacob du Plessis (known as 'Sonny') was professor of surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, vice president of the College of Medicine of South Africa from 1969 to 1974, and chairman of the steering committee and first president of the Surgical Research Society of Southe

Andrew Charles Hicks was born on 25 November 1918 in Longreach, Queensland, Australia, the son of Cannon Charles Maurice Hick and his wife Elizabeth née Smith. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London. After house jobs at the Middlesex from 1947 to 1950 (during which ti

Tom Burke was a consultant surgeon at the South Infirmary in Cork, Ireland. He was born in Bandon in County Cork, the youngest child of Edward (‘Ned’) Burke and Mary Burke née Desmond. He was educated at Warner’s Lane National School and, after the family moved to Cork City in 1928, at the Presentat