John Henry Milnes Walker was born on 16 March 1902 in Wakefield, the son of John William Walker and his wife Constance Elizabeth, née Holdsworth. His father and grandfather had both been surgeons on the staff of Clayton Hospital and his wife's father had been a physician there. He was educated at Ou

Gervas Charles Wells-Cole, the eldest son of Gervas Frederick Wells-Cole, a farmer, was born in Lincoln on 5 May 1889. His mother, Mary Beatrice, who died aged 98, was a daughter of Charles Brook, FRCS, who himself survived to the age of 91. After education at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, and Repto

Frank O'Gorman was born at Bradford on 11 September 1910. No information is available about his forbears, but when he was ten years old his family moved to Glasgow where he was educated at the Jesuit School of St Aloysius before studying medicine at Glasgow University. An outstanding athlete, he pla

Born on 1 November 1885, the son of T L Gauntlett of Putney, he was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon Common and entered King's College Hospital Medical School with the Warneford Scholarship in 1902. The hospital was then still in Portugal Street, just south of the Royal College of Surgeo

John Arthur Rolland O'Regan (Ro) was born in Wellington on 1 June 1904, the son of Mr Justice O'Regan. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Wellington, and graduated from the Otago Medical School in 1928. He was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital and went to London in 1929 for surgical trainin

Robert Wellesley-Cole was born in Kossoh, Freetown, Sierra Leone on 11 March 1907, the eldest son of Wilfred Sidney Ageh, a civil engineer and superintendent of Freetown waterworks, and Elizabeth, née Okafor-Smart, a West African of Krio race. His Nigerian great-grandfather had settled in Freetown t

Roy Yarwood was born in 1914 and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he excelled at shooting, becoming school captain, and also won a medal as a member of the gymnastics team; he went on to continue his shooting career at University and again distinguished himself. He entered Birming

Professionally educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Stockport, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary Fever Wards and to the Queen's Lying-in Institute. At the latter institution he lectured on midwifery and the diseases of women and children. Removing to Poole, he was at the time

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

Born on 6 July 1883, he was the eldest son of Godfrey Huggins, member of the London Stock Exchange, of Berkhamsted, and Emily Blest, his wife. After preparatory school Huggins went to Malvern College in January 1898, but had to leave in July 1899 because his schooling was cut short by illness as he