Eu Sen Vincent Ooi was head of the eye department at the faculty of medicine, University of Malaya. He was born in Malaya on 1 February 1929. He studied medicine at the University of Malaya, where he was a college exhibitioner. He qualified in 1957. He was a senior house officer in ophthalmology

Stuart Taylor was born in Braidwood, NSW and had a carefree childhood growing up as a country boy, attending Braidwood Primary School (often on horseback). He attended SCEGS (Shore), North Sydney as a boarder, having an enjoyable and successful school life and matriculated in 1952. He was accepte

Barry King graduated MB BS from Melbourne University in 1958. After initial postgraduate training at Prince Henry's Hospital and the Repatriation Gen Hospital he went to England in 1966 and gained his FRCS. From 1966 until 1968 he worked with Peter Martin, first at Chelmsford and then at the Hammers

George Clifford Jennings graduated in New Zealand and during the second world war he served as a regimental medical officer in the Western Desert. At Sidi Rezegh he was blown up by a land mine and was captured and transferred to Italy where he spent a very difficult time as a prisoner of war till he

Colin Hooker's two passions in life were his profession and his family. With his motto for the way he lived, a quotation from Thomas Huxley, "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something", he participated fully in all life offered. Colin Hooker was born in Pukeroro just

Graham Hill was head of surgery at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in Dunedin on 24 October 1939, the only son and second child of Thomas Graham Campbell Hill, a driving instructor, and his wife, Margaret Iris Hill née Arthur, a teacher. He was educated at King's Hill High Schoo

Arthur Dixon was born in Melbourne on 14 April 1922; the eldest son of R H E Dixon, and was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. He entered the State Savings Bank as a clerk at the Croydon branch in 1939, living with his family at Lillydale. In 1941 he was conscripted to the Commonwealth Milita

As a surgeon – from his birth in New Delhi, India, his training in England to a career in New Zealand – Roy Chowdhury occupied the world of medicine more than most. Salil Roy Chowdhury (widely known as Roy) was born in 1928, the sixth child of Abala Bondhu Roy Chowdhury, a manager of a colliery i

Hugh Stevens was an orthopaedic surgeon in New Zealand. He was born in Invercargill, on the South Island, where his father was a schoolmaster. The family eventually moved to Oxford, in North Canterbury, where Stevens was educated. He also went to school at Sumner and attended Christchurch Boys’ High

Gordon Clunie was a pre-eminent figure in the surgical life of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Born in Fiji, he received his primary school education in Suva and secondary schooling at first in Hamilton New Zealand and later in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, g

As a consultant surgeon working in rural Australia, Harvey Chesterfield-Evans was a founder member and past president of the Provincial Surgeons Association. He was born in North Korea on 19 January 1922, the son of an Australian who worked for an American mining company and a New Zealander. He was