Francis Henley was a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Liverpool on 23 May 1914, the son of Francis Henley, a director of a sports business, and Julia Virginia Henley née Kowrach, a housewife. He was educated at several Catholic schools, an

Gaston Arthurs was a consultant neurosurgeon and general surgeon who worked in Australia and Zambia. He was born on 10 March 1917 in Fulham, the son of an Italian father, Guiseppe Nunzio Artuso (the family name was anglicised to Arthurs in 1926) and a mother with a French background, Lilian Blanch B

Born at Bombay 17 September 1912, son of Jamshedji Dhondy, cashier in Mulla and Mulla, solicitors to the Central Government of India, and Meherbai Shroff, his wife. They were members of the Zoroastrian Parsee community at Dadar, Bombay. He was educated at the Bharda New High School, St Xavier's Coll

Albert Henry Millard was born in Cardiff on 1 April 1915 and educated at University College, Cardiff, and the Welsh National School of Medicine, qualifying MB BCh in 1938 and proceeding to the London MB BS the following year. He held appointments at Cardiff Royal Infirmary and Barry Surgical and Acc

John Garraway was educated at Eastbourne College and the Middlesex Hospital. On graduating he joined the RAF, in which he served in North Africa and in the RAF hospital in Vereeniging, South Africa, where he married Margaret Lapping in June 1944. After the war he returned to England to serve in vari

Peter Smith was born in London on 14 September 1916, the son and grandson of a general practitioner. His father was Dr Frederick William Weekes Smith and his mother, a bank clerk, was Elise Marie, née Schuckmann. He was educated at Epsom College and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Qualifying

Raymond Alexander King was born on 5 January 1918 and his early education was in China where his father and grandfather were medical missionaries. He entered the London Hospital Medical College for clinical studies and qualified in 1939. Within a few months he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and

St John Michael Clive Birt was a consultant general surgeon at Jersey General Hospital. He was born on 12 February 1916. His father, Amelius Cyril Birt, was a general practitioner in Wantage. His mother, Gertrude Isabel Kidd, came from a medical family: many were doctors attached to the London Hospi

Dorothy Knott was born on 15 April 1914. Educated at St Felix School, Southwold and the London School of Medicine for Women she graduated in 1939. After holding resident appointments at the Three Counties Hospital, Arlesley, which was linked with the Royal Free Hospital under the Emergency Medical S

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

Major General Norman Rogers was the director of Army surgery, and during his career encouraged the training of Army surgeons and the study of military wounding at the research establishment at Porton Down. He was born on 14 October 1916 in Long Acre, central London, the only child of Charles William

Elmhirst-Baxter was born on 18 December 1915 and was educated at Wellington College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Wix prize in 1938 for his essay on David Pitcairn. He qualified in 1939, and dropped his second surname by public advertisement. During the war of 1939-45 he served in