Robert Armstrong Cecil Owen was born in Chester on 11 December 1914, the son of Robert Cecil and Lilian Owen, née Armstrong. His father was a pharmacist. He was educated at King's School, Chester, and later at Liverpool University. He qualified MB ChB in 1938 and in 1939 was awarded the Gee fellowsh

'Gus' Fraenkel was foundation dean and chairman of the school of medicine at Flinders University, South Australia. He was born in Berlin on 29 May 1919, the first child of Eduard David Fraenkel, who later was to become professor of Latin at Oxford, but came from a medical family: his uncle Albert Fr

Maurice Ewing, first professor of surgery at Melbourne University, was born in Edinburgh on 6 July 1912, the youngest of four sons of Thomas Miller Ewing, master mariner, who, like his father and grandfather, was a captain in the Northern Lighthouse Service, and his wife Annabel Rossie. He was educa

Born on 16 September 1915 in Auckland, New Zealand, Jim was the son of James Tyler, the city engineer of Auckland, and his wife Eva, née Mackenzie. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago Medical School, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1938. After qualifying he worked at Auckland Public H

Eric Vernon Barling was born in Sydney, Australia, on 26 April 1911. His father was Dr James E V Barling, a general practitioner, and his mother was Caroline F M Morgan, daughter of a general practitioner. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Dulwich Hill, and the King's School, Parramatta, an

Tom Lewis was a respected London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born in Hampstead on 27 May 1918, but regarded himself as a South African of Welsh origin. His great-grandfather, Charles Lewis, had run away to sea from Milford Haven and settled in Cape Town in about 1850, where he established

John Loewenthal was born on 22 December 1914, at Bondi, New South Wales, the son of Abraham Marcus Loewenthal, who worked with the Australian Mutual Providence Society, and of Carlotta Minnie. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School from 1925 to 1931 and was school captain in his last year. He then

Sir Edward Hughes, known as 'Bill', was Chair of Surgery at Monash University and a former President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was born on 4 July 1919, the third child of Reginald Hawkins Hughes and Annie Grace née Langford. He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Gram