Professor Ibrahim Magdi was working at the As Salam Hospital in Giza, Egypt when he died on 3 March 1981.

Ernest Joachim Joseph Borges held an appointment at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Bombay at the time of his death on 3 March 1969. His daughter, Dr Anita M Borges, MD, MRC Path. joined the staff of the same hospital in 1981.

Charles Bliss qualified in England but emigrated to New Zealand, where he worked in Whangaparaoa. At one time he served in the Indian Army. His diaries, notes and papers were given to the National Library of New Zealand. He died on 18 January 1997, survived by his three sons, Paul, Anthony and Simon

Norman Thompson Holden studied medicine at Cambridge University, the Westminster Hospital and Guy's. He was senior registrar to the traumatic and orthopaedic unit at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex, and orthopaedic registrar to Guy's. He was then appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Enfield G

John Hughes studied medicine at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After early appointments as house surgeon at the Miller General Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital he became assistant medical officer to Down's Hospital, Sutton. He became a Fellow of the College in 1936 and moved to Shef

Jonas Kellgren was born on 11 September 1911. He trained at University College Hospital and after a very wide experience decided to specialise in rheumatology. He became Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the Rheumatism Research Centre of the University of Manchester, consultant physician to

Bernard Sanger was at school in Hastings and received his medical training at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1934. He pursued his surgical career at the London Hospital before his appointment to Southend Municipal Hospital in 1938. Rodney Maingot was a visiting surgeon at that hospital

Ralph Harrison Gardiner studied medicine at Oxford University, King's College Hospital, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and in Vienna. After an early appointment at Grimsby District Hospital in the late 1930s he moved to Buckinghamshire where he spent the rest of his career, eventually be

Thomas Williams was a consultant general surgeon at the West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born into a medical family in Canterbury, Kent, on 6 May 1910, the son of Moses Thomas Williams FRCS. Tom’s schooling was first at Sir Roger Harwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, and then Rug

Educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, William George Quincey Mills qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1934 and later obtained the MB, BCh at Cambridge and became a Fellow of the College in 1936. After junior posts at St Thomas's Hospital and the Radcliffe I

Cyril Jeffery, or 'Jeff', was born on 13 April 1911 in Southsea, the son of Surgeon Commander T W Jeffery OBE RN. He went to the London Hospital in 1929, initially to study dentistry, but changed to medical studies in 1931. He was surgical dresser to Sir Hugh Cairns and Sir James Walton, and was hou

John Dickinson, always known as 'Dickie', was born in Birkenhead in 1909. After studying at Cambridge he went on to Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1934. He served in the RAMC during the second world war, in Assam and in a mobile surgical unit in Burma. He was appointed to the General Lying