Alan Ruscoe Clarke was educated at Haileybury College and Guy's Hospital, where he won the Michael Harris anatomy prize, the Wooldridge physiology prize and the general proficiency prize in 1928, and graduated MB BS in 1931. He held resident appointments at Guy's Hospital and clinical assistantships

Born at Cullercoats, Northumberland, on 7 December 1905, eldest child and only son of Ernest Hindhaugh, seedsman, and his wife Hermione Amelia Hodgson. He was educated at Tynemouth, at Haileybury, and at Durham University, and took his clinical training at the London Hospital, at University College

Born 15 March 1906 at Rangoon, Burma, the eldest child of Mr Vedamanickam, accountant in the Burma railways. He was educated at St Antony's Boys High School and the University, Rangoon. After postgraduate study in England, he was appointed resident surgeon, lecturer in anatomy, and tutor in clinical

Born at Singapore, 27 June 1899, the son of Seah-Liang Seah and his wife, Lim-Soo Lan. He was educated at Hong Kong University, and at King's College Hospital, London, where he served as assistant casualty officer. He practised at Coulsdon, Surrey, and served as assistant surgeon at Horton Emergency

Born on 8 April 1897 in Melbourne son of Charles Robert Rogers and Janet Chant, he was educated in Melbourne until 1915, when at the age of 18 he joined the Australian Naval Transport Service in which he served until 1917. He then came to the Middlesex Hospital to resume his interrupted medical stud

Trained at the North Middlesex Hospital during 1930-32 as a general surgeon, he also practised neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. He became a frequent visitor to European and Russian clinics, attending surgical conferences, and was one of the early visitors to Moscow, when brain operations were carri