Born on 13 August 1892 Sydney Malkin was educated at Epworth College, Rhyl, and University College Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1915 he went on active service in France as a regimental medical officer. After the war he held resident posts in London at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Ross Bloom was born in Leeds on 2 January 1915; his father was a shopkeeper and his mother's maiden name was Fanny Castenberg. He was educated at Cardiff High School and graduated from the University of Wales in 1937, taking the London MB BS, the same year. He obtained the prize for the best first y

John Bastow was born in India; his father, a civil engineer, was an Australian and his mother was an Englishwoman from Devonshire. His early days were spent in Australia; he was educated at Hutchings School, Hobart, Tasmania, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he studied medicine.

St John Dudley Buxton was born on 26 December 1891 in London, the son of Dr Dudley Wilmot Buxton MD, MRCP, who was anaesthetist to University College Hospital, the National Hospital, Queen's Square, and the Royal Dental Hospital. His mother was Louisa Frances Agnes Clarke, daughter of the Rev T G Cl

Richard Butler qualified MRCS LRCP from Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital in 1927 and he spent his early postgraduate years gaining experience in general and orthopaedic surgery, working for Bristow, Perkins and Trethowan. He became FRCS in 1928 and took the MCh in 1933, winning the Robert Jones Go

Harold Jackson Burrows was born at Harrow, Middlesex, on 9 May 1902. His father was Harold Burrows FRCS and his grandfather was a graduate of St Bartholomew's Hospital, who became a Surgeon-Major in the Bombay Army. He was educated at Edinburgh House, Lee-on-Solent and Cheltenham College, where he w

Norman Lock was born in Cambridge on 18 March 1885, the son of the Reverend John Bascombe Lock, Fellow and Bursar of Gonville and Caius College, who had previously been for twelve years mathematics master at Eton. He was the third son in a family of four boys and a girl, two of his brothers becoming

Henry George Lowe was born on 13 September 1923 and was educated at Bolton School and the University of Manchester where he obtained the MB BCh degree in 1947. After resident appointments he became a demonstrator of anatomy as a preliminary to his surgical training, and he took the Fellowship in 195

Cornelius Hugh Cullen was born in Belfast in 1912 and qualified MB BCh BAO at Queen's University in 1935. He obtained the FRCSI in 1939; the FRCS in 1941 and the MCh Belfast in the same year. He was resident at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester, where he later became a member of the consultant staff. H

Herbert Edward Harding was born in 1907. There is no record of his early education before he entered the London Hospital Medical College where he won a number of undergraduate prizes and qualified in 1931. After resident appointments at the London Hospital he completed the FRCS in 1933 to become sur

James Kennedy Elliott was born on 24 August 1908 and was educated at Wellington College, New Zealand, coming over to Edinburgh for his medical course and graduating MB BCh in 1932. He took the FRCS England in 1934, and after returning to New Zealand the FRACS in 1938. Having been a keen Territori

Derek Willey Purser was born near Heywood, Lancashire, on 14 June 1922, and was educated at Heywood Grammar School and Manchester University where he graduated MB ChB in 1946. After house appointments he took the FRCS in 1951 and served for two years as an orthopaedic surgeon in the Army in Germany.