Arthur Messent obtained an open exhibition to Mill Hill School and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Prize in surgery and anatomy. He qualified in 1938 and after a short spell in general practice he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Coastal Command both in th

Derek Wardle was a general surgeon and general practitioner in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Herefordshire to Harold Wardle and Elsie Wardle née Clarkeson. As a boy, he loved working on local farms, developing a love of agricultural work that played out later in his life in Australia, w

Born in Yorkshire in 1908, the son of a civil engineer, Peter Martin was educated at Malvern College, before studying medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge (1925-28), and Manchester, qualifying in 1932. In the next four years he held a series of junior appointments in the Manchester area, in these