William Gordon Davidson was a senior consultant surgeon at Southland Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Dunedin on 18 February 1916, and educated at Otago Boys High School, where he was dux and won the university entrance scholarship to Otago University. He qualified in 1940, with distinctions in

Born in Rio de Janeiro on 12 May 1911 the son of missionaries, Charles Sergel was educated at Monkton Coombe School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained a rowing blue and became President of the University Boat Club and rowed in the Olympics of 1932. He did his clinical training at St Mary'

Francis Hall qualified in New Zealand in 1948, and after doing junior posts came to England to specialise in surgery. Having passed the FRCS in 1953, he did a number of registrar jobs before returning to New Zealand to practice. He retired to Papatoetoe, near Auckland in the North Island, where he d

Albert Ernest Coates was born on 28 January 1895 at Ballarat, Victoria. His father was a minor postal official and his grandparents had emigrated from Suffolk and Cornwall, attracted by the news of the gold discovery. Leaving school at the age of eleven he decided early to become a doctor and he

Ralph Ger was a clinical anatomist and innovative surgeon, who spent most of his working life in New York at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He emigrated from South Africa during the period of apartheid, and obtained much of his surgical training in the United Kingdom after war service in t

William Plunkett Crone was born on 23 March 1919, in London, the second child and first son of William Crone, a civil servant and secretary to the Northern Ireland Government Board of Trade. His mother was Mary Jane, née Plunkett. His early education was at the Methodist College, Belfast. He entered

Edward Francis Shanahan studied medicine at the National University of Ireland where he qualified MB BCh BAO in 1944 with first place and first class honours and won the McArdle Medal. He was an associate member of the International Society of Surgeons. He became lecturer in anatomy at University Co

Jack Mitchell Hay was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 22 October 1920, the youngest child of Mr Justice Hay. His early education was at Hutt Valley Boys' High School and Victoria University College where he initially studied law for a year before proceeding to Otago University to study medicine,

Anthony Frederick Hunter was born in Blackheath, London, and at the age of two emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, both of whom died during his childhood. He was then brought up by an aunt and uncle and educated at Mount Albert Grammar School, King's College, and the University of Otago Medic

Harry Clifford Jones was born at Gateshead, County Durham, on 10 November 1925 and graduated MB BS from King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1948. After appointments at Ashington and national service in the Royal Air Force he became registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Hexham General Hospital. In

John Malbon Mynors was born at Birmingham on 1 September 1921, and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham. In 1943 he graduated with distinction from Birmingham Medical School, prepared for a life of practical Christian service by Crusader leadership. After resident surgical and obste