Frank Sutcliffe Bowly was born on 17 March 1925 in Sydney, the son of Francis, a sheep farmer, and his wife Olga. His grandfather, Charles William Bowly, was a pioneer grazier from England who had settled in Australia in 1873. Until the age of thirteen Frank Bowly was educated by correspondence as h

Maneck Mistry was born on 15 November 1919 in Bombay, the son of R M Mistry, a well known physician who was a member of the Bombay Municipal Corporation and an Honorary Presidency Magistrate. He was educated at the Cathedral School, Bharda High School and Grant Medical College, University of Bombay,

Very little is known about Dennis William Hamilton Hurley except that he passed the FRCS in 1956 and was working at the Seddon Memorial Hospital, Gore, New Zealand, at the time of his death, thought to be in 1978.

Chelliah Mylvaganam studied in Ceylon and gained the MB BS in 1947. In 1956 he passed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He returned to Ceylon and lived at "Ratna Bhawan", Kirillawala, Webedo, Ceylon.

Qualifying from the University of Queensland, Australia in 1949 Bowly held resident appointments at the Brisbane (1950) and Rockhampton (1951-52) Hospitals. He then came to England and joined the surgical staff at the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital 1953, transferring to St John's Hospital, Lewisham 1

Arthur Robb studied medicine at Edinburgh University qualifying in 1945. He returned to the Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital after his army service to complete his training in urology and general surgery. He was first appointed consultant surgeon to the Southern General Hospital in Glasg

Christopher Anders was born in Umtata, Transkei, on 28 December 1927. His mother, Lilian, née Westell, had been a London Hospital sister and was doing missionary work in South Africa. His father, Henry Daniel Anders, was a school inspector. Christopher was at the Dragon School in Oxford and on his s

Richard Brownell Brenan read medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and qualified in 1942. After serving as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RNVR he passed the FRCSI in 1947, obtained the FRCS in 1956 and spent some time as surgical registrar at the Royal Northern Hospital and as surgeon at the Nairobi Gen

'Johnnie' John was born on 9 July 1921 in New Tredegar. He was educated at Bedwellty Grammar School. Reports have it that he was a talented scholar with a reluctance to apply his maximum effort either to work or to play. On leaving school in 1940 he entered the Royal Air Force and trained as a navig

James Pryor was born on 15 November 1928 in Horsham, Victoria, Australia, where his father, William Joseph Pryor, was the Town Clerk. His mother was Vera Florence née Cartwright. He was educated at Horsham State School and University High School, Melbourne, before going on to Melbourne University to

Felix Huber studied medicine at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney where he qualified in 1951, and did junior jobs before coming to England to specialize in surgery. He was registrar at the Royal Northern and Mayday Hospitals before returning to Sydney first as honorary specialist at the Bankstown Ho

Andrew Warren Eklund was born on 9 March 1918 in Ayr, Queensland, where his father Hugo Andreas Eklund was a civil engineer. His mother Kathleen Annie née Warren was the daughter of a gynaecologist. He was educated at the Brisbane Boys' College and Queensland University. After qualifying, he did jun