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

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

Shafik Shalaby was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 17 March 1898, the son of Mina Shalaby who was a Chief Judge. After primary and secondary education in government schools he entered the Faculty of Medicine of Cairo University and graduated with honours, the third in his class, in 1919. All his junior sur

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

Mahapitiyage Peiris was born in Panadura, Ceylon, on 28 July 1898, the son of M A Peiris, a merchant, and was educated at St John's School, Panadura, and St Joseph's College, Colombo, before entering Ceylon Medical College qualifying in 1926.After graduation and junior hospital posts he was appointe

Born in 1903, Robert Kenney was educated at Dalhousie University and the London Hospital. After house appointments at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, he worked for many years as surgeon to the Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company. Thereafter he

Nicholas Attygalle was born on 14 July 1894 at Ratnapura, Ceylon, where his father Don Louis Attygalle was a government official. The Attygalles were from Madapatha, Ceylon, where they own extensive lands. Nicholas Attygalle was educated at Ratnapura, at the Royal College, Colombo, and entered the C

Francis John Milward was a consultant surgeon in Chesterfield. He was born in Redditch, Worcestershire, on 5 April 1903, the son of Henry Tomson Milward, managing director of a needle-making firm, and Elsie Townsend née Newton, the daughter of an Anglican canon. An uncle, Frederick Milward FRCS, was

Geoffrey Molyneux Fitzgibbon was born on 24 August 1903 in Swansea. He was the eldest son of Major John Augustine Fitzgibbon of the Royal Garrison Artillery and Elizabeth, née Molyneux. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, near Clitheroe, Lancashire, and later at London University at St Thomas's H