Born at Larne, Co Antrim about 1880 the son of John Moore Killen MD, he was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and graduated in arts in the Royal University of Ireland, winning first-class honours and an exhibition; he proceeded to his medical degrees in 1903. After postgraduate study at the Londo

Douglas Compton Taylor was educated at University College, London, and qualified from University College Hospital in 1906 with the Conjoint Diploma and the London MB, BS. He was house surgeon and casualty officer at University College Hospital, and took the FRCS in 1913. During the first world wa

William Harry Jayne Weston was born in Liverpool on 28 November 1903 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. After graduating in science in 1925 he spent nearly eight years as a schoolmaster at Pangbourne and Windsor. At the age of 30 he took up medicine and qualified at St George's Hospit

Robert Oliver Wheeler studied medicine at King's College, London and qualified MB BS in 1941. He passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1940 and the FRCS ten years later. He was surgical registrar to St Stephen's Hospital, London, and to Horton Hospital, Epsom, before becoming medical officer to Savernake H

Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs was born in North London on 9 March 1885. His father, John Maundy Biggs, was a general practitioner and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Florence Elizabeth Biggs, née Hopkinson, his mother, was the daughter of the originator of the Hopkinson piano. He w

Sydney Vernon Humphries, the eldest child of Sydney William Humphries, a bank manager, and Violet Humphries (née Kirkman), was born on 24 January 1907 at Middelburg, Cape Province, South Africa. He was educated at Michaelhouse, Natal, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas's Hosp

Maurice Isidore Symonds was born in Melbourne on 24 July 1920, the son of Dr H. Symonds, a general practitioner at Murrumbeena. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and graduated with honours in surgery and medicine at Melbourne University. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hosp

George Harold Thomas was born on 2 January, 1889 in Hong Kong, of unknown parents. He was adopted as a child but left to fend for himself after a few years. His early life was lonely and hard due to poverty and privation. He was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School in Hong Kong and the College of M

Alfred Charles Fisher was born on 26 June 1905 in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Both his father and uncle were physicians. When five months old he went with his parents to Northern Rhodesia; en route he was carried over the girders of the uncompleted Victoria Falls bridge before the roadway was put on. He was

Carmen Russell Salsbury was born on 21 July, 1898, in the County of Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. He was the youngest child of the two daughters and three sons of John Albert Salsbury, a farmer. He was educated in a one room country schoolhouse for four years and then graduated with honours

Derek Bown trained for the Conjoint Diploma at Guy's Hospital and became a Fellow of the College in 1930. He held posts at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital and the Royal South Hants and Southampton Hospital and was medical officer for Reckitt's Convalescent Home in Essex. He became honorary surg

Frederick James Theodore Foenander was born in Colombo on 22 September 1898, the only son of Dr F V Foenander, a provincial surgeon in the Department of Medical and Sanitary Services. He was educated at St Thomas's College, Colombo, and entered Ceylon Medical College in 1918. In 1921 he entered the