Joined the Ordnance Medical Department as 2nd Assistant Surgeon on November 13th, 1830. He rose to be 1st Assistant Surgeon on July 1st, 1831, and to be Surgeon on June 1st, 1846. He retired on half pay on May 15th, 1857, and appears to have lived abroad. He died in Dublin before June 18th, 1884.

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Entering the Army as a Surgeon, he gained in 1853 Sir Gilbert Blane's Gold Medal. In 1854 he went out to the Crimea, and served with distinction, being awarded the Medals for the Crimea, Sebastopol, for Syria and the Baltic, also the Imperial Order of the Medji

Born in Meerut, India, on 25 April 1865, son of Surgeon Jesse Griggs Pilcher, IMS, afterwards Deputy Surgeon-General and FRCS. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1890. Pilche

Born 12 June 1860 at Valence, France, the second son and second child of William Rew Pratt, FRCS, and Maria Louisa Harvey, his wife. Mrs Pratt claimed descent from the family of which William Harvey was an illustrious member. Pratt was educated privately at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and at Westminst

Morley was educated at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying in 1878-79 he acted as house surgeon and then as resident medical officer at the Northampton General Infirmary. After a period as surgeon to the East Lancashire Infirmary at Blackburn, he entered the Royal Naval Medical Service in 1883. Morley

Born at sea when his parents were on the way to India on 23 June 1853, the eldest of the nine children of Dr Mulroney, apothecary and chirurgeon attached Bombay Government for military duty, and Elizabeth Edwardes, his wife. He was educated in Bombay and graduated from the University of Malta. He se

Born on 28 September 1871, eldest child and only son of Hugh Ainsworth and his wife Mary Wright Joynson, he was educated at Owen's College and the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, qualifying in 1895 with first-class honours and serving as house physician; he was also assistant medical officer at the Mon

Born at Marshalls, Ware, Hertford on 4 April 1874, he was educated at Westminster School and University College, London. On the outbreak of the South African war soon after he had qualified, he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper and was attached to the newly formed South African Constabulary.

Stanley Miles was born on 14 August 1911 in Sheffield the son of Thomas Currier Miles, a company director and his wife Florence Edna, née Law. He went to school at King Edward VII School before entering Sheffield University, where he qualified in 1936. After house appointments in Sheffield he joined

Paul Hawley was born on January 21, 1891, the son and grandson of doctors, and he practised with his father in the small Indiana town where he was born, and thus learned the hard way the duties of a country family doctor. He had graduated with the MD degree of the University of Cincinnati in 1914, a

Born in the East Indies on January 1st, 1827. He was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on March 1st, 1859, and Staff Surgeon on December 2nd, 1862. He was placed on half pay on March 14th, 1865. He died at Halstead Hill, Cheshunt, Herts, on September 6th, 1867.

Born at Dunedin, NZ, on June 16th, 1869, the son of Prideaux Selby, of Kowit, Croydon. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and entered the Indian Medical Service as Surgeon Lieutenant on July 28th, 1894, becoming Surgeon Captain on July 28th, 1897; Major on July 28th, 1906, and Lieutenant-