Frank Forty received his medical education at University College Hospital Medical School whence he qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1927. He gained the London MB BS in the following year, and passed the Fellowship examination in 1929. Thereafter he held junior posts at University College Hospi

Bangalore Sundaravadanan qualified in medicine from Madras University in 1926. The following year he came to England and worked at the London Hospital while studying for the Conjoint diploma. He obtained the Fellowship in 1931 and returned to India, where he became honorary surgeon to the Government

William Elphinstone Underwood was born in Birmingham on 20 October 1903, the son of Dr Arthur Underwood MRCS, a general practitioner, and his wife, Phyllis Maud (née Fairclough). His father was a descendant of Dr Michael Underwood, physician to Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. His early edu

Stanley Russell was a consultant surgeon in Orpington and Sevenoaks, Kent. He was born in Forest Hill, London, on 11 December 1903. His father, Charles Neville Russell, was a chartered accountant who founded the celebrated firm of C Neville Russell and Company. His mother was Mabell Annie Farrant. H

Reginald Alfred King was born in Leicester on 22 June 1901. He was educated at Alderman Newton's (Greencoat) Grammar School, Leicester, St Mary's Hospital Medical School and London University. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1927 and MB BS London in 1929. He had a successful career at St Mary's Hospital

Archie Murrell Acheson Moore, known as Dintie, was born in Pretoria on 14 August 1904 and underwent his early education in South Africa. He came to London with his family at the age of seventeen but within a year his father had died, leaving the family with very little money. He entered the London H

George Dorling was born in 1905 in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, the son of Arthur Whayman Dorling, secretary to the Congregational Church Building Society, and his wife Jane Elizabeth, née Passfield. He was at school in Loughton before entering the London Hospital Medical School where he was awarded th

Phadke was born in 1901 and educated in East Khandesh, India. His clinical medical training was received at University College Hospital. London, and he graduated in 1927. Returning to India he became surgeon at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Bombay, an appointment he held until his retire

He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and qualified first as a dentist. After serving as house surgeon, resident medical officer, and surgical registrar at Guy's he settled in general practice at Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he became surgeon to the Infirmary and also to the Holbeach Emergency Hospita

Born in 1895 at Glasgow, he was educated at Grosvenor School, Carlisle and apprenticed to a chemist there. He served in the Black Watch through the war of 1914-18 and then began his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and surgical registrar after qualifying

Born at Morriston, Glamorgan on 27 July 1901, only child of C G Dahne a general practitioner at Portardawe, Glamorgan, and Mabel Louise Thomas his wife, daughter of a Swansea dental surgeon. C G Dahne, whose father was a Danish metallurgist naturalised in Great Britain, was surgeon to the factories

Mahapitiyage Peiris was born in Panadura, Ceylon, on 28 July 1898, the son of M A Peiris, a merchant, and was educated at St John's School, Panadura, and St Joseph's College, Colombo, before entering Ceylon Medical College qualifying in 1926.After graduation and junior hospital posts he was appointe