George Larks was born in Sheffield on 22 October 1900, the son of an ironfounder. His early education was at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, from which he obtained a scholarship to Sheffield University. Before going up he served as a rating (combatant) in the RNVR during 1918 until the end of the

Robert James Wherry Malcolm was born on 19 December 1902 at Dumaresq Island, New South Wales. He did very well at school, passing the Leaving Certificate Examination at the age of 15, so that when he went on to the University of Sydney he was able to graduate MB, ChM at 21, in 1924. He did his junio

Born on 3 March 1907 in Dundee, Angus, Walter Campbell was the son of Henry Gordon Campbell LRCP, LRCS, LDS, RCS Ed, the first Professor of Dental Surgery in University College, St Andrews University. His grandfather, Walter Campbell, obtained the LDS England in 1861, the second year of the establis

John Turner was educated at Trinity Grammar School from whence he proceeded to the University of Melbourne where he gained the reputation of a first class tennis player and a keen student. He went into residence at Trinity College and graduated with top honours in 1928. For the next two years he

Andrew Dorset Harper qualified MB ChB from Liverpool University in 1924. He was a lecturer in clinical anatomy and Rankin Fellow of the University of Liverpool. During the years 1939-41 he was a surgeon specialist with the RAMC. He retired to Torquay and is believed to have died sometime in the earl

Raymond Victor Rickard received his medical education at the University of Sydney, qualifying MB ChM in 1924. He appears to have practised at Kingaroy, Queensland, before coming to Britain in 1930 and obtaining house posts at Nottingham, Norwich and at the West London Hospital. After obtaining the F

Edward Stanley Lee was appointed consultant to the Westminster Hospital at the early age of 29, having spent much of his early career there. He was also consultant to Guildford Radiotherapy Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital and Radium Institute, and was civilian consultant to the Army for neoplastic dis

Henry Barrett was born on 7 November 1903 in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of Henry, a farmer, and his wife Annie, née Campbell. One of his mother's uncles had the distinction of being physician to the Czar of Russia. He received his education at Hamilton High School where he distinguished himself

Born on 5 July 1905 in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, George Young Feggetter was the sixth son and the ninth child of William Feggetter, a shipbroker and coal exporter, and Amelia née Young, the daughter of a tobacconist. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and studied m

Norman Logie was born in Glasgow on 1 January 1904, the son of a general practitioner who was a Glasgow Honours graduate; his mother had been a nurse at Belvidere Fever Hospital, Glasgow. He was educated at Glasgow High School, but his University was Aberdeen, the family having moved north to Rothes