Mildred Faulkner (née Warde) was born in Knowsley, Lancs, on 18 February 1897 the daughter of Wilfred Brougham Warde who was medically qualified holding a London MD. She was educated at Hamilton House, Tunbridge Wells, and studied at Manchester University from 1915 to 1918. She studied medicine at t

Reginald Walter Patrick Hosford was born on 23 June 1898, the eldest son of Dr B Hosford, a general practitioner in Highgate and elder brother of John P Hosford, FRCS, surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was educated at Highgate School where he was a foundation scholar and was admitted to St Ba

The elder son of the Rev Walter Sackett, of Ealing. As a boy he suffered from spinal trouble and lay for many months in a prone position, during which he kept his mind well employed. He received his professional training at St Bar¬tholomew's Hospital, where his career was brilliant. He won the Bentl

He was born in London on 29 August 1896 son of Henry John Jeaffreson, insurance broker, and his wife née Gregory. The Jeaffresons came from Framlingham, Suffolk, and there had been several well-known surgeons in the family; William Jeaffreson FRCS (1844) performed the first successful ovariotomy in