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

Howard Bullock combined a distinguished academic career with great prowess on the sports field. At school he had been an all-round athlete but when he went to Sydney University he decided to concentrate on football and, as one of his friends commented 'threw himself into this with the enthusiasm and

John Hamilton Barclay was born on 19 January 1887 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of John Cairns Barclay and his wife Janet, née Hamilton. He started his career in 1906 at the newly-opened Royal Victoria Infirmary, graduating MB BS with honours in 1911 and obtaining the MRCS LRCP in the same year. A

John Morley was the last of a line of distinguished part-time Professors of Surgery in Manchester. Born on 10 October 1885, the son of the Reverend J S Morley, MA, schoolmaster and clergyman, he was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and Manchester University, where he graduated MB ChB with firs

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

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

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

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

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.

Harold Griffith was born about 1889 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and resident intern midwifery assistant, after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1911, and took the Fellowship in 1914. He served at 22 Casualty C