Dudley Denham Pinnock was born in Australia in 1885 and received his medical education at the University of Melbourne where he graduated MB BS in 1908. After junior appointments in Australia he came to London for surgical training and took the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 and the FRCS in 1913. During th

Robert Kennon was born on February 25, 1889 in Warrington, Lancashire, the son of Robert Kennon, a company secretary and his wife Ann, née Allen. He was educated at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington, and at Liverpool University where he was Tate and Gree Scholar. After qualifying MRCS, LRCP and MB,

Born about 1888, C V Anderson qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was Tite Scholar in 1907, won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in 1911, was elected Beaney Scholar in 1912, and held house appointments. He took the Fellowship in 1913 and migrat

Edward G Slesinger was steadfastly a Guy's man working for its medical school and hospital for nearly 60 years. The only break in this period of service was during the first world war when he served as temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy being mentioned in despatches, awarded the OBE in 1

John Hamilton Barclay was born on 19 January 1887 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of John Cairns Barclay and his wife Janet, née Hamilton. He started his career in 1906 at the newly-opened Royal Victoria Infirmary, graduating MB BS with honours in 1911 and obtaining the MRCS LRCP in the same year. A

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Stanley Ritson began his medical training at King's College, London, where he took his BSc with honours in physiology in 1909 and was senior demonstrator in anatomy. His clinical years were spent at St Thomas's Hospital, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911. He was academically gift

Harold George Alexander had a distinguished career in the Indian Medical Service. He was first in the entrance examination following appointments as house surgeon, casualty surgical officer and senior demonstrator of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital. He entered the Indian Medical Service as Lieutenant

Harold Griffith was born about 1889 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and resident intern midwifery assistant, after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911, and took the Fellowship in 1914. He served at 22 Casualty C

John Ernest Price Watts of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, passed the Conjoint Examination in 1911, and in 1913 the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He worked at the Westminster, King's College London, and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was medical officer and later consultant surgeon