Kenneth Herbert Taylor was born on 7 August 1915, the fourth in a line of a family of doctors, and was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas's Hospital, graduating in 1938. At the outbreak of the second world war he joined the RAMC and served with the Welsh Guards during the evacuation from Dunkir

Raymond Ramsay was born on 19 August 1916 at Peddie, South Africa. He was the youngest child and second son of Alexander Orlando Ramsay, the owner of a trading post, and of his wife Florence, née Tanner. Both parents were born in England; his father (the twelfth child of a preparatory school headmas

Reginald Murley, known universally to friend and foe alike as ‘Reggie’, was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Northern Hospital and a former President of the College. He was born on 2 August 1916. His father, Sydney Herbert, was a fur trader and a general manager of the Hudson Bay Company. His mothe

Carl August Richard Schulenburg was born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa, on 2 February 1915, the son of August Carl Schulenburg, a general practitioner, and Susanna Maria Madgalena née Lemmer, a farmer's daughter. Two of his brothers became GPs, and one sister a midwife. From Ventersdorp Pr

Hanns-Martin Goldberg was a consultant surgeon in Manchester. He was born in Sohrau, Germany, on 14 June 1913, and educated in Berlin and Heidelberg, where he received the early part of his medical training. With the coming of Hitler, he went to London where, thanks to University College, he was abl

Louis Arnold Ives was a consultant general surgeon at St Charles Hospital, London. He trained at London University and St Bartholomew's Hospital graduating MB, BS in 1938. At the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London he became honorary lecturer in surgery. While working in London he lived in H

George Herbert Ashby 'Bertie' Simmons was a surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 31 August 1911 in Hackney, where his father, George Wickham Simmons, was a bank clerk and a Congregational lay preacher. His mother was Margaret née Offer. The family moved to Mill Hill and he went to Mill Hill School, w

Barst received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1938. Obtaining his Fellowship in 1945, he worked for a time as senior orthopaedic registrar at the Whittington Hospital before taking a post as surgical specialist with the Sudan Government Min

Anthony James Walton, the son of Sir James Walton, consultant surgeon to the London Hospital, was born on 11 September 1913. After education at Rugby School and Cambridge University he became a clinical student at the London Hospital where he won the inpatient dressers' and the Anderson Prizes in hi

James Moroney was born on 26 July 1916 and educated at St Francis Xavier's College and Liverpool University, graduating MB in 1938, in which examination he won the Gold Medal in surgery and operative surgery. Having passed his Primary FRCS whilst a medical student he took his Final FRCS in 1941 and

Aubrey Joseph Wilson, known as 'Joe', was a consultant surgeon at Derby Royal Infirmary and Children's Hospital. He was born on 23 September 1913, the youngest of the two sons of Thomas Wilson, a general practitioner surgeon and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Edith Mary Cr

Frederick Denis Hindmarsh was born on 11 August 1914 in Ryton-on-Tyne, the son of Ralph Frederick Hindmarsh, a consulting civil engineer. He was educated at Newcastle Preparatory School, Durham School and Durham University. He qualified MB BS in 1938, obtained the FRCS in 1945 and the MS in 1946.