Duncan Mackinnon Hamilton was born on 28 October 1918. He was educated at Belmont, Mill Hill, Balliol College and Oxford University Medical School. He obtained the BA in 1939, BM BCh in 1942 and served in the RAMC during the war in Malta, Austria and Italy, attaining the rank of Major. He was a regi

Matthew Robert Cecil McWatters, son of David McWatters of Bath, was born there on 4 January 1878. He was educated at Bath Grammar School and at King's College, London, taking the Conjoint diploma in 1902 and the MB the following year. At King's College Hospital he was chosen by Sir Watson Cheyne as

Russell Kneale Magee was born in Hamilton, Ontario on 27 May 1906 and was educated at the University of Toronto from where he graduated in 1930. After qualification he spent two years in England during which time he attended courses at St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. For nine months he w

Born in 1895 he received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital where he was awarded the Musgrove Scholarship for the years 1916-1918. After being admitted a Fellow he was attached to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford until 1939, and during the war years 1939-1945 was medical office

Robert James Wherry Malcolm was born on 19 December 1902 at Dumaresq Island, New South Wales. He did very well at school, passing the Leaving Certificate Examination at the age of 15, so that when he went on to the University of Sydney he was able to graduate MB, ChM at 21, in 1924. He did his junio

Charles Donald qualified in Melbourne in 1934 and served as RMO at Prince Henry's Hospital. In 1936 he came to London and was appointed house surgeon at the West London Hospital under Henry Tyrrell-Grey. He passed the Fellowship in 1938 while at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital before returning as s

James Leslie Diggle passed his MB BS in Melbourne in 1917 and his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1926. He served with the Australian Artillery and the 15 Field Ambulance in the first world war. He died on 8 February 1982.

Louis René De Jode was born on 29 November 1926 in East Ham, London. He was the son of Louis Guillaume De Jode and Germaine, née Tavernier, who left Belgium during the first world war. His father set up practice in the East End, where he became a much loved and respected family doctor. Louis always

Hugh Cecil Fletcher-Jones was born in Yung Ping Fuh on 26 February 1911, the third son of Dr Arthur Fletcher-Jones who was, for 20 years, a medical missionary in China. He was educated at Monkton Combe School in Bath and qualified MB BS in 1935 at the Westminster Hospital, did his residency there an

Cyril Wace was educated at King's College Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1893. When he was appointed house surgeon at King's Joseph Lister was still the senior surgeon at the hospital. He took the FRCS in 1897 and became honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Hampshire County

David Brockway Rogers was a consultant general surgeon at Auckland Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 30 September 1922, the son of Lionel Brockway Rogers and Whittier Rogers née McLeod. He attended Auckland Grammar School and then went to Auckland University. After a year, once he ha

Maneck Mistry was born on 15 November 1919 in Bombay, the son of R M Mistry, a well known physician who was a member of the Bombay Municipal Corporation and an Honorary Presidency Magistrate. He was educated at the Cathedral School, Bharda High School and Grant Medical College, University of Bombay,