Adrian Cousins was a consultant surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 20 July 1928. His father, Gordon James Cousins, was a doctor, and his mother, Yvonne Effie Matild Zani née de Ferranti, a housewife. He was educated in Sydney; at Belmore Primary School, the Ersk

'Johnnie' John was born on 9 July 1921 in New Tredegar. He was educated at Bedwellty Grammar School. Reports have it that he was a talented scholar with a reluctance to apply his maximum effort either to work or to play. On leaving school in 1940 he entered the Royal Air Force and trained as a navig

Richard Brownell Brenan read medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and qualified in 1942. After serving as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RNVR he passed the FRCSI in 1947, obtained the FRCS in 1956 and spent some time as surgical registrar at the Royal Northern Hospital and as surgeon at the Nairobi Gen

Frank Sutcliffe Bowly was born on 17 March 1925 in Sydney, the son of Francis, a sheep farmer, and his wife Olga. His grandfather, Charles William Bowly, was a pioneer grazier from England who had settled in Australia in 1873. Until the age of thirteen Frank Bowly was educated by correspondence as h

Mary Fredericka Richardson was born in Portland, Dorset on 10 April 1917, the daughter of Surgeon Captain Arthur Henry Sims Richardson, DOMS, RN, who after retirement from the Navy became an ophthalmic surgeon in Hereford in 1927. Her mother was Emma Fredericka, née Barker. She came from a medical f

James Pryor was born on 15 November 1928 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, where his father, William Joseph Pryor, was the Town Clerk. His mother was Vera Florence née Cartwright. He was educated at Horsham State School and University High School, Melbourne, before going on to Melbourne University to

William Roy Rogerson was born on 3 July 1923 in Melbourne. His father was William Henry Joseph Rogerson, a mechanical engineer and his mother, Stella Amelia née Wilson, was the daughter of a grocer. He qualified from the University of Melbourne in 1947. He was resident medical officer at the Alfred

Christopher Anders was born in Umtata, Transkei, on 28 December 1927. His mother, Lilian, née Westell, had been a London Hospital sister and was doing missionary work in South Africa. His father, Henry Daniel Anders, was a school inspector. Christopher was at the Dragon School in Oxford and on his s

Arthur Robb studied medicine at Edinburgh University qualifying in 1945. He returned to the Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital after his army service to complete his training in urology and general surgery. He was first appointed consultant surgeon to the Southern General Hospital in Glasg

Walter Henry Collins Scott was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 August 1924, the son of Walter C Scott and Florence (née Tonks). His father was a successful businessman and a veteran of the Gallipoli campaign in the first world war. He received his early education at Scotch College, Melbourne and

The son of a general practitioner, Gammie was born on 1 December 1926 at Bishop's Stortford, and educated at Bishop Stortford College, University College, Oxford and the London Hospital Medical College. After qualifying BM BCh in 1950 he spent two years as a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF medical bran

'Sol' Penn was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania, on 15 January 1930. His family emigrated to Johannesburg, where he attended Athlone High School and studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He completed a series of junior posts at the Baragwanath Hospital. He then went to Engl