Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1915, and saw active service as a Royal Navy surgeon during the rest of the first world war. He then graduated at London University, proceeding to the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1923 and the English Fellowship in 1929. He

Beatrice Smith was a surgeon at the South London and Marie Curie hospitals. She was born on 21 April 1903 in Stowmarket, Suffolk, the only child of Walter James Smith, a corn merchant, and Beatrice Amy née Gostling. She was educated at the Mount School, York, and University College Hospital, where s

Robert Victor Cooke was born at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, on 17 May 1902, the eldest son of John Cooke and Rose Eva O'Neill. He was educated at Lydney Grammar School, on the opposite side of the Severn estuary. He entered Bristol University to study chemistry, but later transferred to the faculty o

Born on the 4 August 1897 at Cardiff, the only son of David Jones, works manager for Guest, Keen and Nettlefold, he was educated at Cardiff High School and the University of South Wales, obtaining a BSc in 1919. For his medical education he attended the Welsh National School of Medicine, qualifying

Harry Teesdale Simmons was born on 17 February 1903, and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1924. He then spent a year in junior hospital appointments, and afterwards worked in physiology obtaining the BSc in 1926, presumably as part of his b

Born on 8 July 1898 at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Educated at the Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and at Adelaide University. The first world war interrupted his studies, and he joined the Royal Flying Corps and flew in France as a pilot on operations. When he was demobilized he returned to Aus

William Elphinstone Underwood was born in Birmingham on 20 October 1903, the son of Dr Arthur Underwood MRCS, a general practitioner, and his wife, Phyllis Maud (née Fairclough). His father was a descendant of Dr Michael Underwood, physician to Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III. His early edu

Born in 1895 John McNeil Milloy was educated at Glasgow University, where he qualified MB, ChB with honours, and the London Hospital. His earliest hospital appointments were at the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital, and later he worked at Birkenhead Borough Hospital, Tooting Bec Hospital, St Peter's H

Frank Forty received his medical education at University College Hospital Medical School whence he qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1927. He gained the London MB BS in the following year, and passed the Fellowship examination in 1929. Thereafter he held junior posts at University College Hospi

Reginald Eric Norrish was born on 15 April 1900. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 at St Bartholomew's Hospital after a previous qualification in pharmacy and was a demonstrator in the anatomy department. He passed the FRCS in 1929 and joined the staff of the Royal Northern Hospital and

Stanley Russell was a consultant surgeon in Orpington and Sevenoaks, Kent. He was born in Forest Hill, London, on 11 December 1903. His father, Charles Neville Russell, was a chartered accountant who founded the celebrated firm of C Neville Russell and Company. His mother was Mabell Annie Farrant. H

Manishankar Khushaldos Joshi was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Medical Service. He studied medicine in Bombay and at the London Hospital. He obtained the Conjoint Diploma in 1913 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1929. It is not known when he died.