Arthur Ellerker received his medical education at Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with both the Conjoint diploma and the London MB BS in 1943. After house posts at Guy's he became clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for the Stone and surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital befo

Thomas Gordon Evans Loosemore was born in Caerphilly on 23 June 1918. He was educated at Plymouth College, St John's College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He graduated MB BCh in 1943 and MA in 1943. He obtained the MRCS, LRCP in 1943, the FRCS in 1948 and the MCh in 1951. During the sec

Basil Arthur Ward was born on 26 October 1916, and was educated at Cranleigh School and St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1942 with the degrees of London University, obtaining honours and distinction in surgery. He was appointed house surgeon prior to being commissioned as a Lieutenant in t

Peter Harold Huggill was born on 28 December 1919 in Surbiton and attended Dulwich College before reading medicine at Downing College, Cambridge in 1938. He completed his studies at King's College Hospital where he was house surgeon to Victor Negus and Terence Cawthorne. After service in the RAMC in

Angus Macarthur was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at King's College Hospital, London. His life and career spanned vast changes in everyday life, the delivery of healthcare and the practice of surgery. He was born in Southampton on 3 January 1921. His father, Murdoch Macleod Macarthur, was b

Gerard William Taylor was born in Natal, South Africa, on 23 September 1920, the son of William Ivan Taylor, an engineer. His early education was at Bemrose School, Derby, and he then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1943. After junior hospital appointments he served