Henry Joseph Windsor was born in 1885 in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1909. During the next five years he worked in a number of hospitals in England including Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital and gained considerable experience. He emigrated

John Edward (Jack) Piercy was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1899 and during the first world war served with the Royal Flying Corps. He returned to England in 1920 to start medical studies at Guy's Hospital qualifying in 1924. After early appointments at St Andrew's Hospital, Bow, and the Roy

Arthur Joseph Wrigley (Joe) was born at Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 5 May 1902, the son of Canon Joseph Wrigley and after attending the Royal Grammar School, Clitheroe, and later Rossall School, he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1924. He gained a distinction in pathology in

Edward Gerard MacMahon was born on 4 April 1904 at Cootamundra, New South Wales, one of the large family of a solicitor. Four of his family became doctors, and his brother John was a senior surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Educated at St Patrick's College, Goulburn, and Sydney Un

Sir Aubrey Gordon Leacock, known as 'Jack', was a leading consultant surgeon in Barbados. He was born on 27 October 1918 in Barbados, into an established Bridgetown family. His father, Sir Stephen Leacock, was a leading merchant. He received his early education in Barbados, at Harrison College. In 1

Born on 22 November 1903, son of Professor William Nixon, Professor of Mathematics at Malta University, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital where he was Epsom Scholar in 1922. Qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927, he was appointed house surgeon at St Mary's and, later, in