Beatrice Smith was a surgeon at the South London and Marie Curie hospitals. She was born on 21 April 1903 in Stowmarket, Suffolk, the only child of Walter James Smith, a corn merchant, and Beatrice Amy née Gostling. She was educated at the Mount School, York, and University College Hospital, where s

Born on 16 March 1896 first son of Satis Chandra Ray, school-teacher and later a lawyer, and his wife Sumati Bose a well known singer, he was educated at the Zilla School, Ranchi under Mr Tipping. He won a scholarship tenable in Bihar, and took his higher education under Father Thompson at St Columb

Born in South Africa, he graduated in arts at the University of Cape Town in 1922, and then came to England for his medical education. At University College, Oxford he took second class honours in the final school of physiology in 1924, and received his clinical training at the London Hospital. He s

Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Surgical Scholar, demonstrator of anatomy and senior house surgeon. He was then appointed chief assistant to the surgical professorial unit. He took the Fellowship in 1927 and the Cambridge Mastership of Su

Arthur Wallis Kendall, the son of Dr J A Kendall was educated at Barnard Castle School, King's College, London, and King's College Hospital, qualifying in 1926 and graduating MB in 1927 and MS in 1934; he became FRCS in 1931. He held posts as house-surgeon at King's and as surgical registrar at the

Robert Victor Cooke was born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, on 17 May 1902, the eldest son of John Cooke and Rose Eva O'Neill. He was educated at Lydney Grammar School, on the opposite side of the Severn estuary. He entered Bristol University to study chemistry, but later transferred to the faculty o

John Andrew Kerr was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 17 July 1903, the first of the four children of John William Kerr, a mineral water manufacturer. His mother Gertrude Adie was the daughter of a goldsmith and silversmith. He attended the George Dixon School in Birmingham and the Birmingham Unive

Harry Isaac Deitch was born in London on 18 January 1903 and after his early education entered the Middlesex Hospital, graduating in 1926. After early hospital appointments which included that of resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone he rapidly acquired both the FRCS and the MS

Born in 1895 John McNeil Milloy was educated at Glasgow University, where he qualified MB, ChB with honours, and the London Hospital. His earliest hospital appointments were at the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital, and later he worked at Birkenhead Borough Hospital, Tooting Bec Hospital, St Peter's H

Robert Milnes Walker was born on 2 August 1903, the younger brother of John Henry (qv). He too was educated at Oundle School, where he became public schools gymnastic champion, and at University College Hospital where he graduated MB, BS (gold medal) in 1926. He was one of the last house surgeons to

Gordon Donald Walter Murray was born in Ontario, Canada, on 29 May 1894. He was educated at the Collegiate Institute, Stratford, Ontario, and the University of Toronto. His medical training was interrupted by service in the 26th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery where he reached the rank of Se

Alban Lewys-Lloyd was born at Towyn, Wales on 3 October 1902 the son of Evan Lewys-Lloyd, the County Medical Officer of Health of Merionethshire, and his wife Margaret, née Vaughan. He was educated at Towyn School before entering St Bartholomew's Medical College, qualifying in 1926. He initially int