John Littler was a consultant general surgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and a lecturer in clinical surgery at Liverpool University Medical and Dental School. He studied medicine in Liverpool and qualified in 1942. He trained in surgery in Liverpool, at Broadgreen Hospital, and gained his FRCS i

Alexander Abraham was born on 23 October 1915. He trained at the Middlesex Hospital and became registrar in plastic surgery to the United Norwich Hospital Group. He moved to Canada and became surgeon to the Sarnia (Ontario) General Hospital. He retired to Eastbourne and his daughter notified the Col

Kenneth Fowler Wood, or 'Ken' to his colleagues and friends, was a general surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Manchester on 6 July 1923. There was no history of medicine in the family and his father, Maurice Herbert Wood, worked in Customs and Excise. His mother was Nellie Asquith Wood née Fowler.

Charles Humphrey Jules Rey was a general surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 15 August 1915, in Bognor Regis, into a family of French origins. His father, Jules Frederick Rey, was a general practitioner. His mother was Bertha Maud née Bevan. He was sent as a boarder to his preparatory school and fro

John Edward Holgate was born in Vizagapatam, India, on 21 October 1921, the son of Maurice James Holgate, who was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Indian Medical Service. His mother was Miss Florence Polyxenie Marsden. John was sent to Epsom College and then to St Bartholomew's Hospital graduating MB BS

Richard Anthony Payne, known to all as 'Tony', was a consultant general surgeon at the North Middlesex Hospital in London. He was born on 17 July 1921, in Worcester, the son of Herbert George Payne, a master at Haberdasher's Aske's School, and Jessica Sweeney. He was educated at his father's school

Yahya Cohen was senior surgeon at the Singapore General Hospital and a former president of the Singapore Medical Council. Born in Singapore on 1 April 1920, he was the son of Menahem Cohen, a Yemeni merchant and Mozelle née Ezra who was from Iraq. The eldest of their three children, he was the only

Shelton Edgar Wijetilaka was a general surgeon who worked at the General Hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Born on 17 November 1920, he was the second child and elder son of Arthur Wijetilaka, a solicitor, and his wife Bernice née Dewasurendra. Educated at the Royal College in Colombo, he studied medi

Geoffrey Warren Holland was born on 26 May 1925, the second son of Sir Sidney George Holland GCMG CH and his wife Florence Beatrice née Drayton. His father was instrumental in the creation and consolidation of the New Zealand National Party and was the 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand, a post he h

John Thompson Rowling was a consultant surgeon in Sheffield at the Royal Hospital and later the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. He was born in Leeds on 11 March 1921 into a family whose medical connections dated back to Elizabethan times. His father, Herbert Samuel Thompson Rowling, was one of the old s

George Angus Maclean Lee studied medicine at Dublin University and did house jobs at the Adelaide Hospital. He moved to London and worked as a surgical registrar at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and then as a senior surgical registrar at the Hillingdon Hospital. Passing the fellowship of the

John Crouch Fitzherbert was born on 7 January 1920. He qualified MB, BS in Sydney and travelled to the UK, where he passed the fellowship of the college in 1952. On his return to Australia he settled in Wollongong, New South Wales. He died on 3 July 2019, survived by his children Richard, Sarah,