Born on 20 September 1890 at Hereford, he was the younger son of Henry Vevers, surgeon of Hereford, and he received his early education there before entering St Thomas's Medical School in 1909. On the outbreak of war in 1914, he went to France as a dresser with the British Red Cross Society but, aft

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

Born at Southsea, Hants on 12 December 1892, the son of Joseph Thomas Purkis, captain, RN, and Jessie Jane Bond, his wife. He was educated at Eltham College and at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to the ophthalmic and the ear, nose, and throat departments. He then served as medical office

Born at Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1888, the eldest son of P G Beyers. of Sunnyside, Pretoria. He was educated at Stellenbosch Boys' High School and Victoria College, where he read zoology under Robert Broom. He graduated in 1908, and deputized for Professor Broom for nine months during 1909. He

Born on 12 September 1888 the third son of William Medlock, produce merchant, and Emma Fulford his wife, he was educated at University College School and Guy's Hospital. He distinguished himself at all field sports: played cricket for the Public Schools against the MCC at Lord's, won the long jump i

Born on 13 August 1892 Sydney Malkin was educated at Epworth College, Rhyl, and University College Hospital, London. After qualifying in 1915 he went on active service in France as a regimental medical officer. After the war he held resident posts in London at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Jelal Moochool Shah was born in 1886. He studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1915 he passed the Conjoint Examination. He joined the Indian Medical Service and in 1927 attained the rank of Major. He served in Egypt and Persia in the first world war. He was honorary consultant in venereolo

Alec Antony Lees was born at Walsall in 1890, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1915. He had been studying at Cambridge and Birmingham, but interrupted the work for his degree to join the RAMC after holding a house appointment at the Birmingham General Hospital. He served with the 36th Gene

Francis Younghusband (1938) summarised this life as follows: 'Somervell is no mean mountaineer: he is one of five who have reached the 28,000 feet level. He is no mean painter: his picture of Everest adorns the walls of the Royal Geographical Society's House. He is no mean musician: he has transcrib

James William Tudor Thomas was born in Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, on 23 May 1893, the only child of Thomas Thomas, headmaster of Ystradgynlais County School, and Mary, daughter of a colliery proprietor, he was educated at the county school, Cardiff Medical School and the Middlesex Hospital. He won

Born 4 March 1886, son of Hag Bayumi Abo el Saud. He received his medical education at the London Hospital and took the English Conjoint qualification in 1915. After his return to Egypt he was appointed to the staff of the Kasr el Aini Hospital, Cairo, on 15 November 1919, and became director of the

Born 7 March 1890, the elder son of William Edwards of Langlands, Glamorgan, Chairman of Edwards Limited, and his wife Mary Griffith Thomas. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge. He took his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, when Sir John Bland-Sutton was s