David Wilkie qualified in medicine in Edinburgh in 1926 and held early appointments in that city. His brother John Leonard Wilkie was an ophthalmologist and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. At the end of the second world war he moved to Cheshire and took up an appointment a

William Eric Archer Hughes-Jones was born in Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia, on 28 April 1902 the eldest son of William Thomas Hughes-Jones, a clergyman. He attended local schools, Wesley College, Melbourne, and the University of Melbourne. He became senior lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Mel

D'Arcy was a third generation Australian, born at Greendale, Ballan, Victoria, where his grandfather Thomas D'Arcy came from Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland and settled in 1848. His father Patrick was Thomas's second son and his mother was a Macgillicuddy, a member of the chief clan in the same part of

Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world