John Frank Herbert Stallman was born in Maida Vale, London, on 14 November 1889. He was the first child of John Henry Zacharia Stallman who was an importer and exporter of crude drugs and spices. He attended Dulwich College and then Guy's Hospital Medical School where he won the Michael Harris Prize

Born 13 January 1890 in London, the third child and second son of William Galloway and his wife,*née* Hawkins. He was educated at Hitchin, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1910. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital,

Born 21 May 1891, the only child of Robert Robertson (1864-1925), of the Indian Medical Service, and his wife Flora Mackinnon. His father was ultimately a lieutenant-colonel, IMS, and senior physician to the Madras General Hospital (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Madras list, No 1500). Robertson was

Arthur Harkness was the son of a saddler and he was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal. In South Africa he had a moderate academic career, but was a superb cricketer and in rugby football he played for Natal, being nearly as good as his brother who eventually played for the Springboks. After qualifi

Arthur Chance was born in Dublin on 15 November 1889, the third son of Sir Arthur Chance, past President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1904 and 1905 and surgeon to the Marta Hospitals, and Martha, née Ronnaey. He was educated in Kildare and the Trinity College, Dublin. As a student

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand in 1888 son of David Renfrew White (MA NZ 1884), Professor of Education in the University of Otago 1909-12, he graduated there in 1913 and then came to London, where he was a resident at St Bartholomew's, the Middlesex, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals. He wa

Born at Vinossington on 16 October 1887, the third child of the Rev J H M de Mowbray and the elder child of his second wife Ann Barbara Lakin. He was educated at Marlborough 1901-05 and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, casualty officer, and resident anaesthetist. He was als

Born 26 November 1888, the elder son of Frank Marsh, FRCS, and Constance Hooper, his wife, who outlived her son. He was educated at Shrewsbury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1910. He then entered St Bartholomew's,

Laurence Ingle was born in Cambridge in 1892, the son of Arnold Clarkson Ingle, a general practitioner who was also physician to the Leys School. Laurence went to the Leys, and then to King's College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1909 as an Exhibitioner. He was devoted to music and to rowing, beco

George Elkington was born in Newport, Shropshire on 20 March 1889, the eldest child of two general practitioners, Ernest Alfred and Annie Isabella Baddeley. The Baddeley practice had existed in Newport since the 1770's and the Elkington family had practised medicine in Birmingham since the 1830's. G

Robert Allez Rotherham Wallace, the elder child and only son of Robert Wallace and Amelia (née Rotherham), was born on 2 November 1888 at Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia. After early education at Melbourne Grammar School he had architectural training at Perth Technical School and worked as a junio

Wilson was born in China on 8 April 1891 and was educated at Liverpool University graduating in medicine in 1914 and taking the Conjoint Diploma on 30 July 1914. On 4 August the first world war broke out and he served throughout it in the RAMC, winning the Military Cross. On demobilisation he ret