Colonel Dwarka Prasad Bhargava was professor of surgery at the Prince of Wales Medical College, Patna and Agra, India. He gained his FRCS in 1933. His son, Kamta, also became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Karsoulal Kesharlal Dalal was practising in Bombay at the time of his death on 11 March 1962.

Noel Theodore Hannaford Schafer was born on 21 October 1905 in Solomon, South Australia, the son of Charles Ernest Schafer and Eva Schafer. He gained his FRCS in 1933. He died in Melbourne on 21 August 1996. He was 91.

William Leslie qualified MB BS in 1927, having studied medicine at Guy's. He became a Fellow of the College in 1933. He was consultant surgeon to St Mary Abbot's Hospital, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He died on 5 June 1982.

Patrick Herbert Lyon Playfair was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in South Africa. He was born on 15 September 1903 in Hampshire. He gained his MRCS LRCP in 1928 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1933. He practised in South Africa. Outside medicine, his main interests were

Shavax Mistri was a general surgeon in Karachi, Pakistan. Born on 27 August 1904 in Poona, he was the third child and second son of Nasarvanji Mistri, a civil engineer, and his wife, a doctor’s daughter whose maiden name was Shirinbai. Two of his mother’s brothers were also medically qualified. Educ

Christopher John Lester Thurgar studied medicine at University College Hospital, London, where he was an assistant in the surgical unit and the Cancer Registry. He became director of the Regional Radiotherapy Service and radiotherapist to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. He was made a Fell

George Norman Clark was a general surgeon who practised in Alexandria, Egypt. He was born on 2 February 1905 in Milltimber, Aberdeen, the only son of George, a solicitor and his wife Isabella Aitken née Dunne. Norman, as he was generally known, attended Cults Public School and Aberdeen Grammar Schoo

Lionel Canaan was born in England where he received his medical education before travelling to the United States. He finally settled into practice in Massapequa Park where he was much respected as a family doctor and it was said of him that he "always kept his fees as low as possible". He wrote shor

Arthur Latchmore qualified in 1929 and after junior posts in Leeds specialised in surgery. He was resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary Leeds, and surgical tutor in the University of Leeds. During the war he served in the RAMC as Lieutenant-Colonel. He returned to Leeds as consultant su

Edward Alexander Butterworth was an ophthalmic surgeon to the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born on 6 July 1907, at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the son of Arthur Shaw Butterworth, a civil engineer, and Ida Evelyn White. He was educated at the Royal Masonic School, Bushey, from which he gain

Herbert Frank McNickle was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 23 August 1907. His father, William McNickle, was the local postmaster. He attended Auckland Grammar School from 1920 to 1924 and the University of Otago Medical School, where he won a gold medal in anatomy, from 1925 to 1930. He becam