John James Woodward qualified MB BS in Melbourne in 1935 and proceeded to a post of resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, the following year. He then worked at the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 1937 before joining the Indian Medical Service in which he served throughout the

Alan Ross Wakefield, known as 'The Vicar', was an Australian plastic and hand surgeon of international renown. He will be particularly remembered for writing, with Sir Benjamin Keith Rank, the classic text *Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), fi

Noel Curtis Newton was born on 28 June 1917 at Ashfield, Sydney, Australia. His father was a pharmacist. He was educated at St Joseph's College and Sydney University. He qualified in 1941. He had poliomyelitis at the age of three years, which left him partly paralysed in one leg, and prevented him f