Born in Brisbane, Ian Lumsden McVey's early schooling days were spent in Queensland. The family subsequently moved to Melbourne and he finished his schooling at Wesley College. He began medicine at Melbourne University, being a student at the Alfred Hospital and graduated MB BS in 1949 was subseque

Graham Smart was a general surgeon at Wairau Hospital, Blenheim, New Zealand. He was born in Croydon, Surrey, on 8 November 1915, the son of Sidney William Smart, a railway executive, and Lilian Smart née Bachelar. He attended elementary school in Croydon and went on to Selhurst Grammar School. As a

Cecil Wilfred Dickens Lewis was a former foundation director of postgraduate medical education at Hong Kong University. He was born on 5 January 1916 in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, the son of Wilfred Ernest Llewellyn Lewis, an Anglican clergyman, and Dorothy Gertrude Lewis. Most of his relatives wer

Born in 1916 son of Carl Vivian Stephens, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne and after qualification he was resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital in 1941. He then joined the RAAF medical service as a Flight-Lieutenant in 1942 and served in New Guine

Nunn received his medical education at the University of Adelaide, qualifying MB BS there in 1951. He came to Britain and passed the Fellowship examination in 1957, before returning to Australia, where he practised at Claremont, WA. He was staff specialist at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1959 and als

Derek Ryder was born in New Plymouth in 1914. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Rotorua High School where he was dux and had a distinguished athletic record. He trained at Otago University, qualifying MB ChB in 1938. As an undergraduate he played rugby for four years with distinction. H

After qualifying John Drew joined the Indian Medical Service in which he served until the partition of India in 1948. He then went to become Medical Superintendent of the Fremantle General Hospital, returning to England only to pass the final FRCS. In 1954 he went to the Royal Hobart Hospital first

Edmond Graham Roberts gained MB BS at University of Melbourne in 1953. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1954 to 1955, and in 1957. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He came to Great Britain and in 1959 he gained the Fello

Myer Kaye qualified MB BS in 1935 and worked as resident medical officer to the Brisbane General Hospital in 1936. He was at the Hospital for Sick Children in Brisbane in 1937 and was medical superintendent to the Mooroopna Hospital in Victoria 1937-8. Moving to England to study for his FRCS he was

Alan Anderson was senior surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Wellington on 28 May 1926. His father, Ewart Gordon Anderson, was a surgeon who had qualified in Durham and went to New Zealand after the end of the first world war. His mother was Elsie Craig neé Ardrey. Alan was e

John Heslop was born in Dunedin on March 21, 1925, the only child of James, an Irish immigrant, and Muriel. James died in his 50s and Muriel lived with John's family and played an important role in caring for her two grand-daughters as their parents developed increasingly busy professional careers.

William Crisp was born in Edinburgh on 5 December 1914, being the eldest son of Thomas Crisp (MD Edin) who was a medical practitioner and his wife, Janet (née Cowie). In 1921 the family moved to Chorley, Lancs, where Thomas established himself in general practice. William went to Bolton School and t