Bernard McCarthy was educated at Melbourne University, gaining a BSc there in 1948, qualifying MB BS in 1950 and received the Melbourne MS in 1955. After early appointments at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and as a demonstrator in anatomy and clinical surgery at Melbourne University, he came to

John Yelland was a neurosurgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland , Australia. He was born in Roma, Central Queensland on 11th August 1928. After a primary education in State schools he attended All Souls Anglican School, Charters Towers, where he was house captain and dux of the school in

John Gunn Roberts, also known as Iain Roberts, received his medical education at Glasgow University, graduating in 1934, and passed the Fellowship in 1955. After a period as assistant in the surgical unit at the Welsh National School of Medicine, he moved to London and became senior registrar and la

'Sam' Mitchell was a consultant general surgeon in Swansea. He was born in Aberystwyth on 30 May 1926, where his father, Samuel, and mother, Doris née Finlay, were school teachers. He was educated at the County School in Aberystwyth and Cardiff University. His junior posts were on the professorial u

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

William Lindsay Elrick, the son of William Elrick, a public servant, and of Margaret Mary May (née Lindsay), was born on 20 February 1927, in Melbourne, Australia. After early education at Coburn Primary School and University High School, Melbourne, he entered the University of Melbourne, and gradua

Tony Gabriel was formerly the senior surgeon at the Cancer Hospital, Maharagama, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was born in London on 10 January 1925 and died in Colombo on 21 December 2007 after a short illness, a few days before his 83rd birthday. He was described by one writer ‘as a person who loved the

Tom Williams was chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Alberta, Canada. He was born in Rhewl, Wales, on 17 April 1925, and spent his childhood and youth in north Wales. He studied medicine in Liverpool, where he completed junior surgical posts, before going to Edmonton, Alberta,

Vernon Hope Smith was a consultant ophthalmologist at Birmingham and West Midlands Eye Hospital and a senior tutor in ophthalmology at Birmingham University. He was born on 27 April 1925. His father, Vernon, and his uncle, Reginald, were distinguished ENT surgeons in Manchester. He was educated at R

Norman Addison was a consultant surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He was born in Leeds on 26 April 1925, the son of Herbert Victor Addison and Alice née Chappell. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, where he won an exhibition and sixth form prizes in biology and chemistry. He went on to stud

Athol James Duke was born in Dunedin in 1928 and his early education was at McGlashen College and at the Otago Boys' High School where he was head prefect and played for the school first XV at rugby. He entered Otago Medical School in 1947, qualifying in 1951, and after completing officer appointmen

Peter Freeman was born on 24 January 1925 in Birmingham, the son of the Reverend Albert Freeman and his wife Winifred, née Wilson, the church organist. His schooling in Newcastle-under-Lyne was interrupted by a two year stay as a patient in Oswestry where his knee was arthrodesed, an event which no