Born on 8 January at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, he served as an infantryman, chiefly in Mesopotamia, in the first world war, before studying medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1924 and became house surgeon. Becoming interested in obstetrics and gynaecology he was appointed sen

Claye was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, on 18 July 1896, the son of a clergyman; his mother was the sister of the first Lord Moynihan. He was educated at Lancing College and Leeds University. His studies were interrupted by the first world war, during which he served in the 4th Dorset Regiment in Ind

Philip Ganner was born on 24 November 1904 the son of a general practitioner in Birmingham. He attended the Hallfield preparatory school, Edgbaston and Bradfield College proceeding in due course to study medicine at the Birmingham Medical School graduating in London in 1928. Two years later he obtai

Gladys Helen Dodds was born in Kirkcaldy in 1898 and educated at Dunfermline High School. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1922 she held the posts of house surgeon at the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital and at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. She wen

Leonard George Phillips was born in London on 5 December 1890. He was educated at the William Ellis School, the University of London and the Middlesex Hospital for which he gained an entrance scholarship in 1910. He won the Lyall Gold Medal and scholarship for practical surgery in 1914. He was turne

Jocelyn Adelaide Moore was born in Monkstown, Co Dublin, on 29 August 1904. Her mother was Adelaide Mary Murphy and her father was Major General Sir John Moore, CB, of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps; she was the eldest of their three daughters. She attended Wycombe Abbey School, Bucks, and the Roya

Harvey Evers was born on 28 May 1893 in one of the mining towns in Northumberland, where his father was a general practitioner. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied medicine at the College of Medicine in Newcastle which at that time formed part of King's Coll

Born at Thamesville, Ontario, Canada on 21 February 1880 he was educated at the American Medical Missionary College, Battle Creek, Michigan and at Chicago. He qualified MD 1907 from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Coming to London he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911 and the Fel

Calvert Gwillim was born on 26 October 1899 in Ceylon. After spending his childhood on that island he was educated first at Swansea and later at St Bartholomew's Hospital, from where he qualified in 1921. He first became a house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he gained considerable exper

Hamilton was born in India on 13 May 1880, the son of T S Hamilton of the Indian Civil Service. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and took the Conjoint Diploma and the London MB in 1903, proceeding to the Fellowship in 1904. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Servi

Brews was the son of a general practitioner, Richard Vincent Brews, LRCSI, and his wife Edith Manifold; he was born in North Woolwich in 1902. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and became a medical student at the London Hospital in 1920. After gaining many prizes he qualified in 1924,

Born in London on 27 April 1887, second son of John McNair of Paisley, an underwriter at Lloyds, he was educated at Aldenham School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in Natural Sciences, and at Guy's Hospital. During the first world war he served with the Royal Navy and