Alexander Watson received his medical education at the University of Sydney and qualified MB BS there in 1933. He came to London and gained the Fellowship in 1950. Returning to Australia, he practised in Fremantle and Perth and was clinical assistant surgeon and subsequently surgeon at Fremantle Hos

David Steel Chapman was a consultant surgeon at Ashington Hospital and a former professor of surgery at Natal University, South Africa. He was born in Choppington, Northumberland, in 1919. He qualified from Durham in 1942 and won the Hallet prize. Joining the Army in 1943, he was with the British ra

James Oldfield was born in Sunderland on 10 July 1923. His father was Thomas Oldfield, a shipwright, and his mother was Annie, née Cockerill-Lawrence. He attended Bede Collegiate School, Sunderland, and then went to Durham University to study medicine on a Miners' Association Scholarship. He attende

John Wedgwood Graham, the son of John Machefer Graham, a farmer and grazier, and of Ivy Maud (née Wedgwood), a descendant of Charles Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, was born on 1 June 1921 at Narrabri, New South Wales. His grandfather, John Bass Graham, was a medical graduate from Dublin who practised i

Charles Raymond Helsby was born on 13 February 1921 in St Helens, Lancs, the son of a local businessman, Frederick Johnson Helsby and his wife Emily, née Cawley. Following the local infant school he attended Merchant Taylors' School in Crosby and went on to the Liverpool Medical School. He qualified

Neil Mackillop was born of Scottish parents in Karachi in 1920. He was educated at Glasgow High School and the University of Glasgow where he captained the university rugby team. After qualifying in 1943 and one year in resident appointments he joined the Royal Navy for three years and returned to t