Anthony (Tony) Kelly was born in Melbourne on 8 November 1909, the son of Piers Lefanu Kelly, a mining engineer, and Anna Dorothy, née Keelan. He was educated at Bacchus Marsh High School in Victoria, St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Victoria, and the University of Melbourne Medical School, where he

Robert Sutherland Lawson was born in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, on 31 May 1908. His father was Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson, KCMG, Prime Minister of Victoria 1918-24. His mother was a distant relation of Sir James Clark, Physician to Queen Victoria. A younger brother, D F Lawson, is a

Born at Perth, Western Australia on 12 August 1906 son of Edward Officer (MB Melbourne 1897) of Beechworth, Victoria, he was educated at Hale School, Perth and Ormond College, Melbourne University, winning a triple "blue" for football, rowing, and athletics. He qualified in 1931 and served as reside

Alan Edwin Park was born on 6 August 1897, and was educated at Otago Boys' High School. In 1914 he took the intermediate medical course at Victoria College, Wellington, and then went to Dunedin to graduate MB ChB in 1920. In his student days he played hockey and got a university blue for tennis.

Keith Buchanan Bridge was a consultant surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born on 4 July 1903 at Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, the second son of a farmer, Charles Harry Bridge, and his wife Christina née Macdonald. He was a boarder at Waitaki Boys' High Scho

Born on 28 September 1913 only son of Sir Hugh Devine FRCS, the distinguished Melbourne surgeon, and Mary O'Donnell his wife. He was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, and at Xavier College, Melbourne. He graduated in 1937 from the University of Melbourne with first-class honours, and was aw

When an aspiring surgeon wins the Hallett Prize in the Primary FRCS examination, passes the Final FRCS in the following month and later wins the Jacksonian Prize (a prize double not hitherto achieved) then it is certain that a surgeon will have rare qualities and is one likely to succeed. Such a man