Marcel Schreiber was born in Sydney in 1910 and graduated with first class honours from the University there in 1931. After serving in junior posts in Australia he came to England and took the conjoint diploma and the Fellowship in 1938. He returned immediately to Sydney and was appointed to the Roy

Anthony Pathmanathan Sandrasagra, the son of M F R Sandrasagra, was born on 9 May 1909 at Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After education at St Patrick's College, Jaffna and St Benedict's College, Colombo, he entered Colombo Medical College with the five year Jeejee Bhoy scholarship. He had an outst

David Eric Sturdy was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Wales. He was born in Llanybydder, West Wales on 4 May 1928, the only son of William Frederick Sturdy, a boot and shoe repairer, and Anne Mary Sturdy née Davies, the daughter of a carpenter. There were no medical connec

Alan Rhodes was a consultant in general and paediatric surgery in Coventry. He was born in Wolverhampton on 1 April 1936 to Florence Rhodes née Levers, a secretary, and Wilfred Rhodes, a clerk. After a stellar performance at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he entered Birmingham Medical School in 1953.

William Roy Carswell was born in 1915, the son of a Dunedin doctor, and was educated in the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1939. He was appointed house surgeon to Wellington Hospital and then joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He had a distinguished military career and was

Francis Ian Hulme-Moir was born on 26 January 1938 in Sydney, the son of the Rev Frank Hulme-Moir who later became a Bishop and Chaplain-General of the Australian Armed Forces. He was the eldest of three children. He received his secondary education at Sydney Church of England Grammar School and gra

Selwyn Francis Taylor, an internationally known surgeon and postgraduate teacher, was born in Sale, Cheshire, on 6 September 1913. His mother, Emily Edwards, was a teacher and his father, Alfred Petre Taylor, a headmaster. He was educated at Peter Symond's School, Winchester, before proceeding to Ke

Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in We