Albert Lawson Light was a consultant general surgeon in Wakefield and at Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, and also a consultant surgeon to the Ministry of Social Security. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical School, gaining a distinction in his final MB BS examinations. Prior to his con

Joyce Rewcastle Ludlow was a surgeon who spent her working life in Nigeria. She was born Joyce Rewcastle Woods in Sidcup, Kent, on 24 July 1905, the daughter of James Rewcastle Woods, a minister, and Una Marion Pierce née Couch. Both parents were keen members of the Temperance Movement. Joyce studie

Edward Grainger Muir was born on 18 February 1906 in North China where his father was a medical missionary. He was educated at Eltham College, and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he distinguished himself by winning the Senior Broderip Scholarship and qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma

Tom Wilson was consultant surgeon to the Eastbourne group of hospitals. He was born on 28 November 1904 at Antony in Cornwall, the son of Thomas Wilson, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland who had served as an Army surgeon during the Boer war, and Edith Mary Crichton (née Boxer), th

Born 21 July 1900 at Elphin, Co Roscommon, Ireland, the eleventh child of John Hanly, farmer, and Winifred Breslin his wife. He was educated at Summerhill College, Sligo and at University College, Galway, a constituent college of the National University of Ireland, where he qualified in 1923. The fo

Andrew Roy Banham was the only son of Sydney Marshall Banham, a general practitioner, and of Sophie Grace Banham (née Hacking) herself a medical practitioner who practised ophthalmology. He was born in Ealing on 15 October 1904. After early education at Yardley Court, Tonbridge, he secured an open s

Norman Cecil Tanner was born on 13 June 1906, 3rd son and 4th child of H J Tanner, building contractor, and Annie Harding, he was educated at Merchant Venturers' Technical College and Bristol University where he graduated MB ChB in 1929. He held junior medical and surgical appointments in Bristol (P

Charles Langley Owen qualified MB BCh from Cambridge University in 1930 after taking the Conjoint Diploma four years earlier. He was house surgeon to University College Hospital, resident surgical officer to St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester and honorary assistant surgeon to Hereford General Hosp

Mark Coleman received his medical education at University College Hospital Medical School, passing the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and graduated MB BS in 1928. He obtained the Fellowship in 1931 and in the same year gained the Mastership of Surgery, and was awarded the Bilton Pollard Fellowship in 1938

Alan Harding Lendon was born in Adelaide on 11 August 1903, the youngest son of Dr Alfred Austin Lendon who had been a prominent member of the profession in South Australia. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and at Adelaide University where he won the Davies Thomas Prize in 1924 and 19

Arthur Wallis Kendall, the son of Dr J A Kendall was educated at Barnard Castle School, King's College, London, and King's College Hospital, qualifying in 1926 and graduating MB in 1927 and MS in 1934; he became FRCS in 1931. He held posts as house-surgeon at King's and as surgical registrar at the

After receiving his medical education at University College Hospital Medical School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, Hugh Elwyn James qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and graduated MB, BS in 1929. He received his FRCS in 1931 and also became a member of Gray's Inn. In t