Anthony D'Arcy Pelly qualified MB BS in Sydney in 1954. He passed the College Fellowship in 1957 and worked as senior registrar in the plastic surgery, burns and oral surgery centre at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, London. He became honorary plastic surgeon to the Balmain and District Hospital

Brian Hammond studied medicine in Sydney where he qualified in 1941. He was house surgeon at Sydney Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney. He was medical officer at the Royal Australian Air Force Hospital Butterworth. He came to England to specialise in surgery and became registrar in Ed