Donald McGavin was a general surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born on 23 September 1906 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Mary Allan née Chapple and Major General Sir Donald Johnstone McGavin, FRCS, who had been director general of the New Zealand Army Medical Services at the end of

Irving Elliot Zieve received the MA from Cape Town University in 1929 and then continued his studies at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He was surgical registrar to Charing Cross Hospital. He became consultant surgeon to Marpeh Izhak Hospital, Nathania, Israel, and honorary assistant in surgery to Ea

Ghosh practised in Calcutta; he died in India on 25 December 1966, aged about sixty.

Charles John Gordon was born on 24 June 1910, in Angmering, Sussex. He came of a long line of clerical forbears, several of whom were bishops in Lincoln. His father was the Reverend George Gordon, who was Vicar of Angmering. His mother, Eileen Hutton, came of an army family. He was the only son and

Born in Penarth, Glamorgan, on 19 September 1907, he was educated at Clifton College, Christ's College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon and surgical chief assistant. Joining the RAFVR before the second world war he served in France and West Africa, and then as s

Eric John Smith was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born on 31 March 1910 in Norwood, Surrey, the second son of Robert Percy and Edith Smith. His early life was overshadowed by the death from Hodgkin’s disease of his elder brother who had been a child prodigy, and Eri

Born in 1906 (his father's name was Herten), he was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and at the London Hospital. He served as resident medical officer at Poplar Hospital, and subsequently settled in Buenos Aires, where he became surgeon to the British Hospital. He died at Buenos Aires, of a cardia

William Henry Daines Trubshaw was born in Johannesburg in 1908, his father having gone to South Africa during the Boer War and became headmaster of the Mayfair School in Johannesburg. Trubshaw went to King Edward's School and Houghton College, Johannesburg and then came to St Bartholomew's Hospital

Daniel Anthony Andersen was born in India in 1906 and educated in England. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma from University College Hospital in 1933, taking the MB BS later that year. In 1939 he took the FRCS and was appointed by the Salvation Army as chief medical officer to the Evangeline Bo

Ernest Harold Carr Harper was a consultant surgeon at West Kent Hospital, Maidstone. He was born in Surrey in 1908, where his father Harry was managing director of a shipping company. His mother was Constance née Carr. He was educated at Hurstpierpoint School, before going to St Thomas's to study me

Cecil Murray was born in Alexandria on 8 January 1910 and was educated at King's College Canterbury and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1933 and MB BS two years later. As a lieutenant colonel surgical specialist in the RAMC he had a distinguished war record in North

William Robert Soutter Hutchinson, the son of a general practitioner, was born at Cannock in Staffordshire and educated at Sedbergh, where he developed his love of the country and the walking and fishing he enjoyed all his life. He then proceeded to Cambridge and completed his medical studies at St