David Harland was born in Heathfield, Sussex on 17 January 1916. His father, Percy Cave Harland, was on the staff of Barclay's Bank and his mother was Emma, née Colenutt. He attended Roborough School, Eastbourne, until he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Hallett Prize in 1948. He h

William James McLaren (Bill) was conceived in Montreal when his parents were visiting Canada and born in the UK. Educated in Scotland in Broughty Ferry, he then studied medicine at St Andrews University graduating MB, ChB in 1944. He did house jobs in Carlisle and Oswestry. For his National Service

Maurice Hershman received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified MB BS with honours in 1941, obtaining the conjoint diploma in the same year. After qualification he was surgical registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School, London, assistant principal surgical officer at Cr

After qualifying John Drew joined the Indian Medical Service in which he served until the partition of India in 1948. He then went to become Medical Superintendent of the Fremantle General Hospital, returning to England only to pass the final FRCS. In 1954 he went to the Royal Hobart Hospital first

Bill Schulze was born in Natal and entered the University of Cape Town in 1927 where he had a distinguished career by obtaining first class honours in all the main subjects, which was a unique achievement by any student. In 1933 he qualified with honours and became house physician to Professor Falco

John Felix Bolton Carter was born in Leicester and spent his definitive surgical career in the city. His father had also been a consultant surgeon to the Leicester Royal Infirmary. He went to Rugby School before his pre-clinical training at Cambridge, proceeding to University College Hospital, and q

Richard William Tudor, the son of William Victor Tudor, a civil servant, and of Daisy Alice (née Baker) a teacher, was born in Birmingham on 19 July 1920. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, after winning a County Scholarship, and at Birmingham University where he won the Queen's Sc

Paul Brian Counsell moved to Bermuda as a consultant surgeon in 1958 and for several years was the only general surgeon there. Isolated in Bermuda, he carried out general surgery in the widest sense, performing abdominal surgery, orthopaedics, genito-urinary surgery, and an occasional Caesarean sect

Caleb Tucker was born in Ashburton, the second of four children, of Edward, a timber and joinery business owner, and Elizabeth Tucker. Both parents were keen musicians, his mother a pianist and his father playing the cornet, and Caleb was encouraged to learn the piano. He was educated at Ashburton H

Derek Teasdale was a consultant general surgeon in Rochdale. He was born on 11 February 1919, the eldest son of John Hall Teasdale, a house governor of Royal Waterloo Hospital, and Mabel Hannah Teasdale née Coldicott, a piano teacher. He attended Colfes School in Eltham and studied medicine at King’

Fred Hunt was born at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, on 5 March 1899, the son of John Hunt, a schoolmaster, and his wife Clara, née Beardsley, who had seven children. He was educated at the Elementary School and the County Secondary School in Ilkeston, and entered the London Hospital Medical College in 1916,

Jeffrey Woodrow Betts was a consultant at Lincoln County Hospital. He was born in Elstree, Hertfordshire, on 20 March 1913, to John Betts, a newspaper proprietor and editor, and Hannah Woodrow, daughter of a farmer and mill-owner. He was educated at St Alban's School and King's College, London. He t