Sydney Graham Aitken became FRCS in 1946. Little is known about his life except that he was working at St Margaret's Hospital, Auckland, in 1975 when he disappeared from records, presumed to have died.

Sir Edward Hughes, known as 'Bill', was Chair of Surgery at Monash University and a former President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was born on 4 July 1919, the third child of Reginald Hawkins Hughes and Annie Grace née Langford. He was educated at Melbourne Church of England Gram