Harry Beagley qualified at the University of Otago in 1946 and came to England to specialise in ENT surgery. He returned to Auckland as a consultant ENT surgeon, but came back to London as a consultant otologist at the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hosp

Paul Vincent Wadsworth was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Brighton and Haywards Heath hospitals and, for many years, also principal laryngologist to Glyndebourne Opera. He was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, on 2 November 1919, the son of Joseph Harold Wadsworth, a school master, and

Granville Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon at Lancaster, Kendal and Morecambe Hospitals. Born in 1922, he was educated at Bedford Grammar School and Uppingham, where he was house captain. He read medicine at Oxford and completed house jobs at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He did his National Service

Eliasz Zwiefach (Elek or Alek to his friends) was born in 1910 and after gaining the diploma in medicine in 1936 proceeded to the degree of MD two years later. He had started to practise otorhinolaryngology before the war, but shortly after its outbreak was taken prisoner by the Russian Army and spe

Maxwell O'Mara was born 28 September 1923 the only son of William Timothy (Tim) O'Mara a grazier and Mary Rose (May) Long. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College, Waverley, NSW, St Ignatius' College, Riverview, NSW and Sydney University (St John's College and St Vincent's Hospital). Du

Eiron Jones was born on 6 June 1921 in Putney, London, of Welsh parents. His father, John, was a master dairyman and his mother was Mary Jane, née Davey. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, and this was followed by medical training at the London Hospital Medical College between 1940 and 1945, d

Esmé Hadfield was born on 27 February 1921 in Long Ashton, Bristol. She was the daughter of Geoffrey Hadfield, Professor of Pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons, and Eileen, née Irvine, who came from farming stock in County Fermanagh, Ulster. She was educated at Clifton High School, St Hugh's