Douglas Green belonged to a well-known Ecclesfield family. Educated at Barnsley grammar school, he obtained an open scholarship and a major open county scholarship from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Sheffield University medical school. Green excelled both at work and games: he was a keen Associati

Kenneth Sinclair Elphinstone Macrae was born on 6 August 1914. He was the second child and first son of Kenneth William Duncan Macrae, MB ChB Edinburgh, a general practitioner in Rainford for 51 years, and of Isabel Marion Duncan Macrae (née Adams). He was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School and the

Born in Dublin on 2 April 1858 the son of Arthur Hill Griffith solicitor, and his wife Hannah Rose Cottingham. The family emigrated to Australia in 1872, and he was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne from his fourteenth to eighteenth year. He took his medical training in England, qualifying at th

Born on 8 December 1870 at Marlborough where his father was manager of the Bank, he followed his three elder brothers to Marlborough College and St Mary's Hospital, which he entered with a scholarship. He served as house surgeon, house physician, and resident obstetric officer, and intended to becom

Jack Hesketh Beasley was born in Toronto, Canada on 31 March 1899. He qualified in Canada and came to England, obtaining the FRCS while at the London Hospital. He practised in Blackpool as a surgeon until 1939 when he joined the RAMC and went to France as a surgical specialist with No 4 General Hosp

John Daniel Henry Bird was born in Longcot, Berkshire on 4 August 1908. His father, Daniel Henry, was a schoolmaster. He was educated at Ranelagh School, Bracknell, where he won a scholarship to King's College Hospital Medical School where he had a notable academic career. He gained a BSc in physiol

Harold William Burge was born on 23 July 1909. He originally entered King's College, London, as an engineering student and shortly transferred to the faculty of medicine to graduate from King's College Hospital in 1933. After a few years in general practice he decided on a career in surgery and took

Frederick Gordon Kergin was born at Port Simpson, BC, January 11 1907, the son of W T Kergin, MB. After preliminary schooling at Prince Rupert he attended the University of Toronto, earning his BA in biological and medical sciences in 1927 and the MD in 1930, both with honours. He won the George Arm

Allen James Whitaker, the fifth son of Dr James Smith Whitaker who was formerly a family doctor in Great Yarmouth, was born in Hendon on 16 April 1905. His father, having been the first medical secretary of the British Medical Association, became senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health on i

Charles Bellemore was born in June 1920, the third of eight sons of Charles and Mary Bellemore, and grew up in Ashfield, Australia. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham, and received his medical training at the University of Sydney. He started general practice in Chester

Reginald (Rex) Salisbury Woods was born in Dulwich on 15 October 1891, the son of Henry Thomas Woods. His mother, Lilian, was the sister of Frank Salisbury CVO, LLD, the portrait painter. He entered Dulwich College in 1906 at the age of fourteen and in his last year was senior school prefect as well

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