John Francis Iffland was born in Salonika, Greece, on 22 June 1931 and, after early education at Palmer's School, Grays, Essex, and at Minster House School, Upminster, was admitted to the London Hospital Medical College. He qualified in 1954 and after early house officer appointments joined the Roya

David Davison, known as 'DD', was born in Sutton, Surrey on 28 April 1932, the son of Edgar Davison, a Lloyds underwriter, and May, née Mould. He was educated at Sutton High School and the Royal Masonic School in Bushey, where he was head boy in 1950 and an outstanding athlete, winning the All-En

Leonard Dudley Heaton was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on 18 November 1902, the son of George and Emma Heaton, and after early education attended Denison University at Granville, Ohio, before entering the University of Louisville, Kentucky, for his Doctor of Medicine degree, awarded in 1926.

Francis Wilfred Peter Dixon was born in Australia and educated at Newman College and Melbourne University where he graduated in 1930. He joined the Royal Air Force Medical Service in the same year. After serving abroad in Iraq and Aden as medical officer to 33 and 101 Squadrons he was posted to Abin

Colonel Derrick Orry Hunt Messent was a surgeon in the RAMC. He was born on 19 June 1922. He studied medicine at Sydney University, qualified in 1946 and gained his FRCS in 1964. He wrote a joint paper on spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus (‘Spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus with unusual

Peter Roberts was professor of military surgery for the Army Medical Services. He was born in Manchester on 20 December 1940 at the height of the Manchester Blitz to George and Edith Roberts. Edith died when Peter was nine months old, and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Annie and Bob Robert

Born at Bristol 19 February 1875, the ninth child and sixth son of the Rev John Mackie, Rector of Fylton, Glos, and Annis Bennett his second wife. John Mackie was twice married; there were five sons and two daughters of the first marriage, and one daughter and three sons of the second. He was educat

Kenneth Panton Milne was born on 25 January 1924 in Aberdeen the youngest of five sons, four of whom became doctors. He was educated at Robert Gordon's College before entering the Aberdeen Medical School where he qualified in 1946. One year later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and decided to

Paul Bailliart attended school at Besançon and entered the military medical school at Lyon, and acted as an army surgeon from 1902 to 1907 when he went to Paris and initially worked with Morax. His contributions to ophthalmology were widespread; and he produced three books of great merit: the *Trait

John Conrad Neely was born in Bromley, Kent on 29 March 1901, the son of William Neely, a stationer and Clara Rebecca, née Cope. He was educated at Hodder School, Stoneyhurst College and Hertford College, Oxford, before entering Guy's Hospital Medical School for clinical studies. He qualified in 192

Philip Clermont Livingston was born in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in 1895. His father was managing director of the family shipping firm. He went to school in Vancouver Island and then studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won a rowing blue with the victorious c

Clive Young was able to combine a successful urological practice with a part-time military career happily uninterrupted by war. He was born on 22 October 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica, where his father, Archibald Hamilton, an electrical engineer, was then working. His mother was Lurline, née Chandler. T