William Bashall Gabriel was born on 2 October 1893 and spent his boyhood at Oulton Broad, Suffolk. There he learned to sail, a hobby which was a joy to him throughout his life. Educated at Monkton Combe School, Bath, and Epsom College, he qualified at the Middlesex Hospital in 1916 and after a house

John Basil Hume was born in Whitby on 29 September 1893, and was educated at Bootham School, York. In 1911 he came to St Bartholomew's and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1916. After a house appointment he joined the RAMC and served in East Africa for the rest of the first world war, gaining

Educated at St Mary's and the London Hospitals, he qualified during the first world war, after which he settled about 1925 at Kokstadt, East Griqualand, South Africa, where he appears to have practised for the rest of his life, though using a bank address at Abingdon, Berkshire. He retired about

Baron Theodore Rose was born on 21 July 1892 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and the Birmingham Medical School. He graduated BSc in 1914 and MB ChB in 1916. After resident posts at Cardiff, Bristol and the Royal Northern Hospital, London, he took the FRCS Edinburgh and became resid

Born 19 November 1893 at Liskeard, Cornwall, the third child and second son of William Huddy, silversmith, and Jessie Ham, his wife. Educated at Liskeard County School and at the London Hospital, where he served as house physician, house surgeon, first surgical assistant, clinical assistant in the g

Douglas was born on 25 May 1893, was educated at Bristol University, and the Middlesex and London Hospitals. In 1913 he graduated BSc with first class honours after research in biochemistry. When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Worcester Regiment, and gave up his work as a medical student to se

Born on 14 February 1889, Griffith Evans was educated at Ruthin School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained second-class honours in the final school of Natural Sciences (physiology), and had his medical training at St George's Hospital, London. He joined the RAMC as a student on the outb

James Gaymer Jones was born at Upper Norwood, London, on 26 August 1891. His father was also an MRCS. He was educated privately and at the West Ham Technical Institute from whence he proceeded to Guy's Hospital in 1910. He gained many prizes in anatomy and physiology. In July 1914 he was mobilised i

Born in 1894 he received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he became a house surgeon and later chief assistant in the surgical unit. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC and was at one time attached to the 1st London General Hospital. In 1925 he was in partnership

Born at Christchurch, New Zealand 18 December 1894, he was educated in England at Berkhamsted School and St George's Hospital. He qualified during the first world war, and went on active service as a Major with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in France, winning the Military Cross. He then spent f

Born on 8 February 1894 in Higher Crumpsall, Manchester, the youngest son of the eight children of Mr and Mrs John Newell, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and the Medical School of the University of Manchester. An undergraduate at the beginning of the first world war, he volunteered

Born on 10 March 1891, son of T L and S A Griffiths, he studied medicine at the University of Wales and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as a surgeon-probationer in the RNVR 1914-15, qualified in 1916, and was a surgeon to the 1st London Hospital 1916-18, being mentioned in dispatches. He was al