Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Born 26 September 1887 at Allepy, Travancore, South India, the third child and only son, in a family of four, of the Rev Clement Alfred Neve, clerk in Holy Orders, and his wife, a sister of Sir Frederick Treves, FRCS. He was educated at St Michael's School, Limpsfield, and at Repton. He entered Rept

Born on 22 June 1888, son of Dr Arthur John Jefferson of Rochdale and younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Manchester University, where he shared the Dumville surgical prize with J S B Stopford. Qualifying in 1911 with the conjoint diploma and t

Born on 20 May 1885 in Travancore he was educated at Madras Medical College, where he qualified in 1909, and at the Middlesex and London Hospitals. He was gazetted a Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1911 and took the Conjoint diplomas a fortnight later. He was promoted Captain

Born about 1888, C V Anderson qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911 from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was Tite Scholar in 1907, won the Treasurer's Gold Medal in 1911, was elected Beaney Scholar in 1912, and held house appointments. He took the Fellowship in 1913 and migrat

Edward G Slesinger was steadfastly a Guy's man working for its medical school and hospital for nearly 60 years. The only break in this period of service was during the first world war when he served as temporary Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy being mentioned in despatches, awarded the OBE in 1

Stanley Ritson began his medical training at King's College, London, where he took his BSc with honours in physiology in 1909 and was senior demonstrator in anatomy. His clinical years were spent at St Thomas's Hospital, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911. He was academically gift

Harold George Alexander had a distinguished career in the Indian Medical Service. He was first in the entrance examination following appointments as house surgeon, casualty surgical officer and senior demonstrator of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital. He entered the Indian Medical Service as Lieutenant

Born at Gravesend, Kent, on 25 June 1885, the third child and only son of Henry Bazett, MRCS and his wife Eliza Ann Cruickshank. He was educated at Dover College and at Wadham College, Oxford. He took his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of physiology in 191

Born 3 December 1882 the second of three brothers he was educated at Harrow and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar and was placed in the first division of the second class in the Classical Tripos, part I, 1905. He rowed for his college and was captain of the University swimming team.

John Ernest Price Watts of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, passed the Conjoint Examination in 1911, and in 1913 the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He worked at the Westminster, King's College London, and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was medical officer and later consultant surgeon

Charles Gordon Shaw was born in Melbourne on 9 January 1885 and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University where he graduated MB BS in 1907, proceeding to the MD degree in 1910. Rowing was his favourite sport and he was in the winning eights both at school and also at Ormond