Victor Cumberland qualified in Sydney and came to England after the war to specialise in surgery. Having passed the final FRCS he returned to Sydney to become honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal North Shore Hospital and surgeon to St Joseph's Hospital, Auburn. He died on 20 April 1997.

Gunter was educated at Melbourne University, qualifying MB BS there in 1945 and gaining his MS in 1950. He held junior appointments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1945 to 1949. He came to Britain in 1950 and passed the FRCS examination in that year. After spending a year at Frenchay Hospital,

John Bryant Curtis qualified MB BS at Melbourne University in 1939. After two years in junior posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he served as a medical officer with the Royal Australasian Air Force from 1943 to 1946 and in the latter year gained the MS from his university. In the following year h

After qualification he acted as RMO and senior surgical clinical assistant at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne in 1942, and assistant to out-patient surgery at Prince Henry's Hospital. Joining the AIF he served for some time as a Captain in the RAAMC Reserve in New Guinea and Bougainville, and in 1946

Thomas Emanuel Antonie was a general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne between 1961 and 1986. Tom Antonie was born in 1921 and received his secondary education at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, matriculating in 1940. He studied medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1945.

Born on 12 July 1914 at Dunedin, second son of Hugh and Helena Marshall, he was educated at Otago Boys High School and won an entrance scholarship to the University and the Fowler Scholarship in the Medical School. He qualified in 1938 with a gold medal in clinical medicine. While a resident at Auck

Robert Pope Melville was a consultant general and breast surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Wollongong, New South Wales on 23 May 1913. One of five children, his father, Hector Pope Melville, a school principal and advocate for education, encouraged his sons and daughters

William Roy Carswell was born in 1915, the son of a Dunedin doctor, and was educated in the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1939. He was appointed house surgeon to Wellington Hospital and then joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He had a distinguished military career and was

Born 8 November 1921 in Melbourne, the son of Arthur Ernest Bedbrook, a gardener, and Ethel Nora Prince. George Bedbrook was educated at the State School, Coburg, the University High School, Melbourne, and the medical school of the University of Melbourne. There he won honours in every subject in th

Alan Sutherland had some remarkable experiences as a doctor at war. He was a prisoner of war for one day when, as a member of the 6th Field Ambulance, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, he was captured by German paratroops during the evacuation from Crete in 1941. They were killed so he escaped. L

William Eric Swaney, known as 'Bill' to his colleagues, was head of orthopaedics at Royal Melbourne Hospital. As head of a very busy orthopaedic unit, he mentored many young orthopaedic surgeons and trainees in the early days of the Australian orthopaedic training programme. Bill was born in Foot

Born on 16 September 1915 in Auckland, New Zealand, Jim was the son of James Tyler, the city engineer of Auckland, and his wife Eva, née Mackenzie. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago Medical School, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1938. After qualifying he worked at Auckland Public H