Born on 17 August 1898 second child and only son of John Bathgate Johnston, merchant, and Lilian May his wife, he was educated at Adelaide High School and University, qualifying in 1924. He came to the London Hospital and, after two years postgraduate study in England, returned to South Australia, w

Born 14 February 1897, the ninth child and third son of George Fitzsimons, a farmer, and his wife, *née* Haining. He was educated at Dumfries Academy, Scotland, and Waitaki Boys High School in New Zealand. He received his medical training at Otago Medical School, Dunedin, and later at Guy's Hospital

Born 13 January 1890 in London, the third child and second son of William Galloway and his wife,*née* Hawkins. He was educated at Hitchin, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1910. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital,

Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Surgical Scholar, demonstrator of anatomy and senior house surgeon. He was then appointed chief assistant to the surgical professorial unit. He took the Fellowship in 1927 and the Cambridge Mastership of Su

Born on 30 March 1894, the second son of Sir Henry Braddon, he was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He started on a business career as a junior clerk in the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, where he spent two and a half years mostly in the chemical department, picking up k

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