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

Walter John Burfitt-Williams was born in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, on 27 June 1927. His father, Grosvenor John Williams, was an ophthalmic surgeon. His mother, Mary Boyd Burfitt, was a physician. Two of his brothers were doctors - Thomas was a physician and Grosvenor, an ophthalmologist. Walter was