Samuel Norman Lytle was born in Maghera, Co Derry, Northern Ireland, on 30 January 1905. He was educated at the National School, Maghera, Foyle College and Campbell College, Belfast. He graduated MB BCh BAO Queen's University, Belfast, in 1927. Coming to London, Norman Lytle filled the three resi

Born at Leicester, 1 July 1909, fourth son and seventh of the eight children of Richard Marcus Jordan, leather merchant, afterwards of Weston-super-Mare, and E Jane King, his wife. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare and at the Bristol Medical School, graduating MB BCh at Bristol University in 1931

Laurence Edgar Davison was born in London on 4 April 1907, the son of Edgar Knights, a master tailor, and Katherine, née Davison. His early education was at Cheltonia College and later at Dulwich College before entering Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1931. During house appointments

Alan Ruscoe Clarke was educated at Haileybury College and Guy's Hospital, where he won the Michael Harris anatomy prize, the Wooldridge physiology prize and the general proficiency prize in 1928, and graduated MB BS in 1931. He held resident appointments at Guy's Hospital and clinical assistantships

John Stanley Batchelor was a member of a distinguished medical family in New Zealand. His grandfather, Ferdinand Campion Batchelor MRCS 1871, trained at Guy's and emigrated to Dunedin in 1874 where he established an obstetrics and gynaecology practice, becoming the University of Otago's first Profes

The only child of Percival and Lilian Coulter, he was born on 18 October, 1907. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury and King Edward VI, Bath, entering medical school at Bristol University in 1925, from whence he qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1931. He entered the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Lieutenant

Herbert Edward Harding was born in 1907. There is no record of his early education before he entered the London Hospital Medical College where he won a number of undergraduate prizes and qualified in 1931. After resident appointments at the London Hospital he completed the FRCS in 1933 to become sur

Allen John Bridson Goldsmith was born on 27 November 1909, the son of an Edinburgh MD. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1931 and took the MB BS with distinction in medicine and pathology. He held posts at th

Johan Wilhelm Sture Hjalmarson Lindahl was born on 8 October 1906 in South Kensington, London, the eldest son of Bror Hjalmar Lindahl, a practitioner of Swedish remedial treatment and massage and Anna Isabella, née Uberg, previously a senior customs official at Norrkoping, Sweden. He was educated at

Ronald Furlong was a leading orthopaedic surgeon. He was born in Woolwich on 3 March 1909, the son of Ronald John Furlong, a businessman. Ronald was educated at Eltham College and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1931. In the following year he won the Cheselden medal in anatomy and surger

Born in Leeds on 18 September 1907 son of Charlton Oldfield, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Leeds 1919-32, he was educated at Harrow, Oxford and, for his clinical studies, Leeds. Qualifying in 1931, he held house appointments at the General Infirmary, Leeds and, ascending the surgical la

Humphrey Arthure was born in Tibberton, Worcestershire, on 27 January 1906, the son of Harry Edgar Erskine Arthure, Vicar of Mickleton, Gloucestershire, and Maud Mary, née Donnison, whose father was first Notary Public of the City of London. He was educated at Hillstone Preparatory School, Malvern a