Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1915, and saw active service as a Royal Navy surgeon during the rest of the first world war. He then graduated at London University, proceeding to the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1923 and the English Fellowship in 1929. He

Born at Easington, Co Durham, where his father was the local doctor, he was educated privately in Durham, then at Rutherford College, Newcastle and at Durham University College. After qualification he served in the RAMC in Mesopotamia as a battalion medical officer. On his return to civilian life he

Born on 19 March 1896 in London he was educated at William Ellis School, King's College, and the Westminster Hospital where he won a gold medal at graduation. Qualifying in the middle of the first world war, he was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and transferred to the Royal Flyi

Muriel Landau was born on 21 January 1895 and educated at Dame Alice Owens School, Islington where she gained an entrance scholarship to the London School of Medicine for Women. She qualified in 1918 and after house appointments at the Royal Free and at Queen Charlotte's Hospitals was appointed regi

Born in 1882, the daughter of James Lewis, Lieutenant, Royal Navy and Emily Catherine Wooldridge, in her late 20's she gave up a successful teaching career in music to take up the study of medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1917 and graduatin

Born on 11 March 1896 at Oudtshoorn, Cape, South Africa, he was educated at University College School and Hospital, London, winning the Lister medal for clinical surgery in 1918 and serving as house surgeon and ophthalmic registrar. He was commissioned in the South African Medical Corps towards the

Born in 1892 at Queenstown, Eastern Province, South Africa, he was educated at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, and at the King's College Hospital, London. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he enlisted in the London Rifle Volunteers and saw service in France as a combatant, with the rank of corp

Peter Wright, as he was known all over the world, was one of the kindest and gentlest members of his profession. Born on 3 June 1892, he qualified at University College Hospital in 1915 and proceeded to the FRCS in 1920 and MS London in 1921. As an extremely young medical officer he served in France

Born on 10 March 1891, son of T L and S A Griffiths, he studied medicine at the University of Wales and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as a surgeon-probationer in the RNVR 1914-15, qualified in 1916, and was a surgeon to the 1st London Hospital 1916-18, being mentioned in dispatches. He was al