Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City. Tim was educated at Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, and Marlborough

Ralph Harrison Gardiner studied medicine at Oxford University, King's College Hospital, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and in Vienna. After an early appointment at Grimsby District Hospital in the late 1930s he moved to Buckinghamshire where he spent the rest of his career, eventually be

Born in 1910, Francis Rundle was educated in Newcastle and graduated from Sydney University Medical School with first class honours and the University Medal in 1932. During his early training in the competitive environment of the university hospitals in London, he won the Jacksonian Prize of the Col

Andrew Geoffrey Butters was born in Kempston, Bedfordshire on 5 April 1911, the third child of George Butters, a general practitioner. In early childhood he suffered from a gross speech defect and also from congenital myopia. His disabilities were so severe that at the age of eight he was unable to

Henry Shucksmith was the third child of Thomas Warth Shucksmith, a farmer of Alvington, Lincolnshire, and his wife Fanny White, whose father was a blacksmith. He was educated at the Alvington and North Coederington Church of England Elementary School followed by the King Edward VI Grammar School, Lo

Thomas Williams was a consultant general surgeon at the West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born into a medical family in Canterbury, Kent, on 6 May 1910, the son of Moses Thomas Williams FRCS. Tom’s schooling was first at Sir Roger Harwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, and then Rug

John Hughes studied medicine at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After early appointments as house surgeon at the Miller General Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital he became assistant medical officer to Down's Hospital, Sutton. He became a Fellow of the College in 1936 and moved to Shef

Charles Bliss qualified in England but emigrated to New Zealand, where he worked in Whangaparaoa. At one time he served in the Indian Army. His diaries, notes and papers were given to the National Library of New Zealand. He died on 18 January 1997, survived by his three sons, Paul, Anthony and Simon

Born on 27 November 1910 at Heilbron, Orange Free State, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and the Christian Brothers College, Pretoria before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1928. He qualified in 1934, served as a house surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital

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 in South Africa on 2 February 1908, the eldest child of Benjamin Levitt a landowner and Jenny Goodman his wife, he was educated at the University of Cape Town, where he took first-class honours in anatomy in 1929 and in physiology in 1930. He was an assistant lecturer in the University for a sh

Sydney Krantz had a good record at school at Prince Alfred College, and played for the school and afterwards for the University of Adelaide at cricket and football. He studied medicine in the University of Adelaide and graduated MB BS in 1927. After junior appointments in Adelaide he came to England