John Garraway was educated at Eastbourne College and the Middlesex Hospital. On graduating he joined the RAF, in which he served in North Africa and in the RAF hospital in Vereeniging, South Africa, where he married Margaret Lapping in June 1944. After the war he returned to England to serve in vari

Peter Sherratt Watson was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Hertfordshire area. He was born in Leicester on 6 May 1925. His father, John Robert Watson, was an accountant and his mother, Nellie Evelyn née Sherratt, a secretary. At Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, he was captain o

Cyril Toker was chief of surgical pathology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. He was born in Ermelo, South Africa on 29 March 1930, the first of two sons of Philip and Fay Toker. Philip and Fay Toker immigrated as young children with their families to South Africa from Lit

Valentine Hammond ('Val') was a distinguished ENT surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London. As a child, he had suffered from repeated ear infections and, on becoming a medical student at St Thomas's, he had a recurrence that introduced him to the friendly ENT firm of Fred Neilson, Bill Mill and Geoffr

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

Edward (‘Ted’) Watson was a general surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Dunedin, the eldest child of Vera Christian Watson née Cameron and Edward Baden Watson; his father was a surgeon, his mother a music teacher. He had two siblings – Arthur and Diane. Ted’s childhood years

Ariyaman Mahanama Mendis was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sri Lanka from 1958 to 1974, when he immigrated to Western Australia. He accepted the position of senior medical officer to the vast and remote Kimberley region, based at Derby Regional Hospital, on the far north coast of We

Paul Chanmugam was born in Jaffna, Ceylon, on 1 June 1900, the son of Anna Annama (née Paul) whose father was resident surgeon at the Friend in Need Hospital, Jaffna, and Joseph Kadir Gamer Chanmugam, Principal of Jaffna Central College, where he received his early medical training before entering K

Jeremiah Burke was born at Douglas, Cork, on 19 February 1913 the son of Jeremiah Burke, a farmer and his mother was Ellen O'Reagan, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Christian College, Cork, and at University College, Cork (National University of Ireland), where he gained the Hutchinson

John Gladstone Sweeney was born on 26 January 1928. His father James Sweeney was also a doctor who served with the AIF on the Western Front in the 1st World War. The family have fortunately maintained his copperplate hand written diaries of his war service and his interest in the nature and treat

Ken Millar was chief of surgery at the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Wangaratta, Victoria, on 13 October 1926, the second son of schoolteachers Leonard James Millar and Marion Millar née Amiet. He grew up in a variety of rural towns in Victoria, before the fa

Dick Williams was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in London on 10 October 1924 to General Sir Guy Charles Williams and Ruth Eleanor Williams (née Coode), the younger of two sons. His father was a professional soldier, having served with distinction in the Firs