He was educated at University College Hospital and qualified during the first world war. He served as a temporary Captain in the RAMC and won the MC. After the war he held appointments at University College Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and then went into practice

Born at Southsea, Hants on 12 December 1892, the son of Joseph Thomas Purkis, captain, RN, and Jessie Jane Bond, his wife. He was educated at Eltham College and at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to the ophthalmic and the ear, nose, and throat departments. He then served as medical office

Born 18 December 1894 at Witfoot, Middelburg, Transvaal, South Africa, the third of the three sons of Henry Laver, merchant of Middelburg, and his wife, nee Hardiman. Both parents came originally from Southampton. He was educated at Middelburg, at the Bedford Modern School in England, and at Guy's H

Born on 19 January 1899 at Tongwynlais, Glamorgan, the son of a civil engineer, he was educated at Charterhouse and, on leaving school at the age of eighteen, he joined the army and was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery with No 119 Siege Battery, serving in France where he was wounded.

Bone 2 September 1897 at Sydney, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and St Andrew's College, Sydney, and had a distinguished career at the University of Sydney scholastically and as an athlete and boxer. After serving as resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney 19

Born at Dunedin, New Zealand on 1 October 1893, the eldest son of (Sir) Louis Barnett, FRCS and his wife Mabel Violet Fulton. He was educated at Christ's College, Dunedin, and the Otago Medical School, where he graduated in 1920. His student years were interrupted by the war, when he volunteered