Sydney Graham Aitken became FRCS in 1946. Little is known about his life except that he was working at St Margaret's Hospital, Auckland, in 1975 when he disappeared from records, presumed to have died.

Nothing is known of the career of Girdharlal Dayalji Adhia except that he was working at the Chowpathy Surgical Clinic in Bombay, India, when he died on 11 September 1982.

Charles Holmes Bartlett was born at Painswick, Gloucestershire on 18 November 1913. To understand Charles's character fully we must look back to his father Reginald who was ordained into the Congregational Ministry in Bristol in 1905 and within a few months was working as a Missionary in New Guinea,

Eric Vernon Barling was born in Sydney, Australia, on 26 April 1911. His father was Dr James E V Barling, a general practitioner, and his mother was Caroline F M Morgan, daughter of a general practitioner. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Dulwich Hill, and the King's School, Parramatta, an

Frederick Neil Street was born in Sydney on 19 June 1916. He was educated at Sydney Boys' High School and Sydney University, where he graduated with second class honours. He then did a year as resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, before joining the RAAMC in 1940. He

John Loewenthal was born on 22 December 1914, at Bondi, New South Wales, the son of Abraham Marcus Loewenthal, who worked with the Australian Mutual Providence Society, and of Carlotta Minnie. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School from 1925 to 1931 and was school captain in his last year. He then

'Gus' Fraenkel was foundation dean and chairman of the school of medicine at Flinders University, South Australia. He was born in Berlin on 29 May 1919, the first child of Eduard David Fraenkel, who later was to become professor of Latin at Oxford, but came from a medical family: his uncle Albert Fr

Thomas Edward Wilson was born in Melbourne on 25 January 1913 and had a distinguished record at Scotch College, Melbourne, especially in geometry, and as a champion swimmer. He proceeded to Melbourne University, but while an undergraduate had the misfortune to lose both his parents; yet in spite of

Derek Ryder was born in New Plymouth in 1914. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Rotorua High School where he was dux and had a distinguished athletic record. He trained at Otago University, qualifying MB ChB in 1938. As an undergraduate he played rugby for four years with distinction. H

Robert Armstrong Cecil Owen was born in Chester on 11 December 1914, the son of Robert Cecil and Lilian Owen, née Armstrong. His father was a pharmacist. He was educated at King's School, Chester, and later at Liverpool University. He qualified MB ChB in 1938 and in 1939 was awarded the Gee fellowsh

Maurice Ewing, first professor of surgery at Melbourne University, was born in Edinburgh on 6 July 1912, the youngest of four sons of Thomas Miller Ewing, master mariner, who, like his father and grandfather, was a captain in the Northern Lighthouse Service, and his wife Annabel Rossie. He was educa

George Bentham Morris qualified MB, ChM Sydney in 1925 and began his career by holding posts at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, The Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney and the Royal Alexander Hospital for Children, Sydney. In the second world war he was a Squadron-Leader in the Royal Australian Air Forc