Mohanlal Vanichand Modi was born in Porbunder in India, the son of a district judge. He went to Elphinston College in Bombay and for his medical education to Grant Medical College in the same city. He was an outstanding scholar winning scholarships and three gold medals during his student career. He

Aubrey James Mason was born in Whangarei in 1902 and educated at Epsom Primary School and later Auckland Grammar School. He qualified MB ChB from Otago in 1924 having gained distinction in his second professional examination and was a house surgeon in Auckland Hospital for two years in 1924-25. He t

Julian Ormond Smith was born on 21 January 1903 at Morwell, Victoria, the son of Julian August Romaine Smith a distinguished surgeon in Melbourne. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and entered the University of Melbourne in 1921 where he shone in athletics, gained a football blue, and grad

James Eastwood Sykes was born in Accrington, educated at the University School at Southport, and at Liverpool University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1922. After junior posts in Liverpool he took the Edinburgh FRCS in 1926 and the English FRCS in 1929, and had clinical training as a registrar and s

Born in 1902 at New Plymouth, New Zealand, he was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago University, Dunedin, graduating in 1924. After holding resident posts at Auckland Hospital in 1925-26, he spent 1927 as a Government medical officer in Levuka, one of the Fiji Islands. He came to England

Robert Lester Almond was born on 4 April 1902 in Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, the son of William Thomas, a schoolmaster, and Fanny Were. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Ormond College, Melbourne University, graduating MB BS with honours in 1925. After residency in the Alfred Ho

Little is known of Alfred Laurence Johnston except that he was a magistrate and that he served in the AIF 103 Howitzer Battery in the first world war and was with the 2/3 AGH in the second. He died on 27 March 1977.

James Dawson was born at Kilsyth, Glasgow, on 2 August 1898. No details of his early education are available, but after his first year as a medical student at Glasgow he volunteered for the Army. Having been in the Officer's Training Corps he was commissioned into the Lancashire Regiment and was in

Donald Dixon McKenzie was born in Colac, Australia, in 1902, where his father was a Presbyterian minister. In 1905 the family moved to New Zealand. He was educated at Wanganui Technical High School and followed his two elder brothers to Otago University where he qualified in medicine in 1924. After

Leslie Norman Pyrah was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine

Francis Edward Stabler was born in Darlington on 23 September 1902, the son of the headmaster of a school in the town, and received his education at the Darlington Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, and the University of Durham College of Medicine, where he graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor o

Leslie Norman Pyragh was born at Farnley, near Leeds, on 11 April 1899, the son of a headmistress. Unfortunately no further details of his forbears are available. He was educated at Leeds Central High School and served in the army during the final stages of the first world war. He then read medicine