James Alan Millar White was born in Edinburgh on 14 January 1925, the son of John Letham White, a public works contractor and a nephew of Frankie Jardine FRCS Ed of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. His early education was at George Watson's, Edinburgh and at Edinburgh Academy until 1941 when he went

Hendrick Van den Brenk, a radiotherapist, radiologist and experimental oncologist in Australia and England, was born on 22 June 1921 in Sydney, Australia, and qualified MB BS at Melbourne in 1944. He gained the MS degree in 1954, the same year in which he passed the Fellowship. After practising as a

Peter John Ryan was a pioneer in colorectal surgery. He was born, the eldest of four boys, on 25 November 1925 in Dookie, Victoria, Australia, to farming parents. He was dux of Assumption College, Kilmore, and then went on to study medicine at Melbourne University. He graduated in 1948 and was a res