Dermot O'Flynn was a consultant surgeon in the urology department at the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, Dublin. He was born on 21 January 1920 and studied medicine at Cork, qualifying in 1942. After house jobs in Mansfield and Lincoln, he joined the RAMC, which took him to West Afric

Jeremiah Burke was born at Douglas, Cork, on 19 February 1913 the son of Jeremiah Burke, a farmer and his mother was Ellen O'Reagan, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Christian College, Cork, and at University College, Cork (National University of Ireland), where he gained the Hutchinson

Born on 21 October 1911 the second son of Robert Taylor, a fruiterer, and his wife née Young, he was educated at Hillhead High School, Glasgow and Glasgow University, where he graduated in science in 1933 and qualified in medicine in 1936. He served as resident surgical officer at Bolton Royal Infir

John Shepherd was born in Edinburgh on 11 May 1913, the son of a schoolmaster, Frederick Peter Shepherd, and his wife Christina, née Brackenridge. He was educated at George Watson's College and Kelso Collge, and went with a scholarship to St Andrew's. He qualified in 1936 and did his house jobs in h

Thomas Michael Hennebry was born in Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland in 1913, the son of Michael Hennebry, a wine importer. He was educated at Castleknock College, Dublin, and University College, Dublin. He qualified with honours in 1937, taking the McCardle prize in surgery and the O'Farrell gold

Hugh Evelyn Lockhart-Mummery was born in London on 28 April 1918, the son of John Percy Lockhart-Mummery FRCS (1875-1957) and his wife Elizabeth, née Gibbons. He was educated at Sandroyd Preparatory School, Stowe and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an exhibitioner in 1938 and senior scholar