Born on 1 April 1915 in Doublebois, Liskeard, Cornwall, to a family that had served India for five generations, Peter Anthony Lane Roberts was educated at Cheltenham and then went with a classical scholarship to Wadham. At Oxford he read medicine, rowed and played rugby football, gaining a trial cap

'Bill' Irvine was born 19 March 1925 in Glasgow, the son of George Irvine. He was educated by his father and then at the University of Glasgow. After qualifying he planned his own programme of surgical training and successively worked with Sir Charles Illingworth (Glasgow), Peter McEvedy (Manchester

Howard Mitchell Jamison was born in London on 19 January, 1917, the son of James Jamison, a schoolmaster. He studied at the Sir Walter St John's School and the Regent Street Polytechnic before winning a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified MB BS in 1941 and, before joining the Army

Jean Anne Evans was an assistant specialist surgeon in renal medicine at Glan Clwyd Hospital, and prior to that at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Rhyl. She was born on 25 May 1930 in Sheffield. Her father, Herbert Oliver ('Bunny') Evans, was a Congregational minister and her mother, Gertrude Mary ('Mol

Cyril Moulson Smithies lived in St Helier, Jersey. He is presumed to have died in 1976.

Leslie Alan Spedding qualified MB ChB from the University of Otago in 1913. He became resident surgical officer at the Salford Royal Hospital in Manchester and while in the United Kingdom passed the College Fellowship examinations in 1920. He then returned to New Zealand and is thought to have died

Thomas Max Pemberton was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 24 June 1910, the son of Bertram Victor Pemberton, the senior government meteorologist in New Zealand and Alice May, née Nosworthy. His grandfather Thomas Pemberton MB, FRCS Edinburgh, had practised surgery in Birmingham, in South Africa

Mark Alexander Bertram Jolly was a junior resident medical officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1967 and a member of the AMA. He is presumed to have died in 1977.

George Mouzas was a consultant in accident and emergency surgery at Enfield District Hospital. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, into a Greek family. His father was a chest physician who had qualified at Lausanne. The family moved from Istanbul to Athens in the 1930s in response to Turkish disturbanc

Richard Brownell Brenan read medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, and qualified in 1942. After serving as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RNVR he passed the FRCSI in 1947, obtained the FRCS in 1956 and spent some time as surgical registrar at the Royal Northern Hospital and as surgeon at the Nairobi Gen

Lawrence Dulake was born in Hampstead on 3 January 1901 the eldest son of William and Emma, née Prestoe, both of whom lost their fathers at the age of five. William was a self-made man and an authority on housing the working class, becoming chairman of Rowton Houses (now hotels) and the Artisans, La

Harold Clifford Edwards was born in Newport, Monmouthshire on 15 August 1899, the second son of William Evans Edwards, Professor of Music, and Mary Selina (née Jones). He was educated at St Woollos School and Newport Intermediate School before joining the Royal Engineers in 1917 as a skilled sapper.