Born on 12 January 1873 at 37 Panton Street, London, SW, eldest son of Albert Thurston, braces manufacturer, and Jane Owen, his wife. He was educated at a private school at Margate, and took his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and surgical registrar. He was

Educated at Grant Medical College, Bombay and the London Hospital, he was appointed senior house surgeon at Queen's Hospital, Birmingham in 1910. Deshmukh practised in India, at one time in Wadhona, Central Provinces, and later at 39 Peddar Road, Bombay. He died on 21 September 1963.

Born in Ceylon 5 November 1879 son of Mudaliyar William Marcellus De Silva, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and at the London Hospital Medical College from which he took the Fellowship, being the first Ceylonese postgraduate student to do so. He returned to Colombo where he made a dist

Born in Victoria, Australia on 13 May 1878, son of John Devine, a grazier in the Werribee district, he was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat. After a country apprenticeship in pharmacy, he was employed by Henry Francis, an old established pharmacist in Bourke Street, Melbourne, whose sho

Born on 28 September 1913 only son of Sir Hugh Devine FRCS, the distinguished Melbourne surgeon, and Mary O'Donnell his wife. He was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and at Xavier College, Melbourne. He graduated in 1937 from the University of Melbourne with first-class honours, and was aw

Born on 14 April 1891 son of Joseph Dew of Melbourne, he was educated at Scottish College and the University of Melbourne. After graduation in 1914 he joined the RAMC and served as a Captain throughout the war, first in France and later in Egypt and Palestine. Returning to Melbourne after the war he

Educated at Bombay and St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised at 514 Sandhurst Road, Bombay, and died there between July 1957 and June 1958.

Born on 21 March 1870 at Liverpool, second child and eldest son of Joseph Kellett Smith, MRCS 1860, surgeon to the Stanley Hospital, Kirkdale, and his wife, *née* Dansen. He was educated privately and at University College, Liverpool, then a constituent of the Victoria University, where he served as

John Richard Stares Blake (known as Richard) was a consultant surgeon at King's Mill Centre for Health Care Services, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood, north London, and then went on to study medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1

Son of John Donald of Aberdeen, he was born on 14 February 1896 and was educated at Robert Gordon's College and Aberdeen University. In the 1914-18 war he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Gordon Highlanders, but transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Air Force in which he beca

Born at Kensington on 21 December 1873, the son of a Chancery barrister, he was educated at Clifton and King's College Hospital, where he was captain of the Rugby XV in 1895-96, and also rowed in the Hospital fours and eights. Immediately after qualifying he was commissioned in the 13th Imperial Yeo

Born 2 August 1863 at La Mauvraie, Port Louis, Mauritius, the eldest son of John Rouillard, Judge of the Supreme Court of Mauritius, and his wife, née de Chazal. He was educated at the Royal College, Mauritius, and was admitted a pensioner at Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1883, received his