Born on 2 October 1898 he was gazetted as a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 20 May 1925, and was promoted Captain in 1928 and ultimately Lieutenant-Colonel. He served on the staff of King George's Medical College, Lucknow, and afterwards at Delhi. He died in October 1955.

Alfred Charles King studied medicine at the London Hospital where he became surgical registrar and first assistant. After working as a surgeon to the Nairobi Native Hospital, Kenya, he returned to London and was appointed resident surgical officer (accidents) to the Poplar Hospital. He died on 9 Feb

Born at Singapore, 27 June 1899, the son of Seah-Liang Seah and his wife, Lim-Soo Lan. He was educated at Hong Kong University, and at King's College Hospital, London, where he served as assistant casualty officer. He practised at Coulsdon, Surrey, and served as assistant surgeon at Horton Emergency

John Elgood studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, passing the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and qualifying MB BS the same year. He worked as external midwives' assistant at Bart's and then became senior house surgeon to the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham. He then held the post of surgeon to

Edgar Freshman received his medical education at Manchester University and at the London Hospital qualifying MB ChB in 1922 and passing the Conjoint examination two years later. He spent most of the early years of his professional life in Manchester and Birmingham, before moving to London, where he

Born on 15 December 1901 at Mile End Newtown, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a house surgeon at the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary, Clinical Assistant at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, and Chief Assistant at Moorfields. He subsequently became Ophthalmic Surgeon t

Born on 8 January at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, he served as an infantryman, chiefly in Mesopotamia, in the first world war, before studying medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1924 and became house surgeon. Becoming interested in obstetrics and gynaecology he was appointed sen

Born and educated in Trinidad, he obtained an island scholarship to England in 1917 from QRC Port of Spain. Proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his medical education, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and then held various appointments, as resident anaesthetist at St Bartholomew

Doris O'Doherty was born on 7 April 1902, the elder of two daughters of Charles Patrick O'Doherty, the assistant secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and of Blanche Mary Clark. After education at the Mary Thatcher Girls' School in Camberwell she secured a St Dunstan's S

Maurice Lee was born in Dublin in 1906 but during his early childhood his family moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne where he was educated before entering the University of Durham for medical studies, qualifying at the early age of 21 and passing the FRCS five years later. During the early part of his c

Alfred ('Boo') Fripp was born in London in 1899. He was the son of Sir Alfred Fripp (*Lives* 1930-51), a surgeon at Guy's Hospital and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to both King Edward VII and King George V. He served in the first world war, enlisting as a second lieutenant and seeing action in France. Aft

Hubert Wallace Symons was born at Bradford 24 November 1890 and was educated at Bradford Grammar School and the University of Leeds where he graduated MB ChB in 1912. His father was a wool-merchant, but his maternal grandfather was Dr J H Lilly who was the first Medical Superintendent of the Western